Firefox encoding issue

[Peegee]

I reinstalled my OS today (actually 'upgraded' to server 2k3) and am now setting up firefox.

I would like it to display japanese / chinese / whatever text whenever the need arises but the browser isn't doing that

Things I've done so far:

- set encoding to unicode
- set languages to include japanese and chinese. Set those two languages to be on top (in order that I supposedly want them used)

Is there anything else I missed, or am I totally off? What needs to be done?

[Renmiri]

Did you try looking at plugins ?
I have Rikaichan which is pretty handy for translating pages in Japanese. They might have one for display too.

[Yamaneko]

Did you install the Japanese language pack off the Windows CD?

Why did you "upgrade" to Server 2003? It's not really meant to be a desktop environment.

[crono_logical]

Yeah, check you've installed japanese (far eastern language) support - I remember it being more annoying to enable in Win2k3 than XP but don't remember why now

[JKTrix]

The encoding you should look for for Japanese is 'Japanese (Shift_JIS)'.

To get there from my version of Windows/Firefox:

View>Character Encoding>More Encoding>East Asian>Japanese Shift JIS.

I'd imagine the other ones for the other places would work just as well. I don't know if you can get it to pick the right encoding automatically, but if not it's easy to switch them around.

[Killy]

I had the same problem.

Go to a page that has Japanese text using Internet Explorer

IE will offer to install Eastern Language support.

Install

It will work in firefox then.

[Peegee]

I had the same problem.

Go to a page that has Japanese text using Internet Explorer

IE will offer to install Eastern Language support.

Install

It will work in firefox then.

yay