On 07/21/2007 03:34 PM, James Hatridge wrote:

In the past few weeks (since Vista came out, if that adds anything) I've seen an odd thing on my browsers. I use mostly SeaMonkey and Konqueror. On many web sites where the !"§$%& and öäüß etc are I see only a black diamond with a question mark in it. Any ideas why this is and how to fix it?

I assume your browser is set to UTF8. Go to View, Character encoding, and change it to ISO-8859-1 or -15. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Samstag, 21. Juli 2007, James Hatridge wrote:

Hi all,

In the past few weeks (since Vista came out, if that adds anything) I've seen an odd thing on my browsers. I use mostly SeaMonkey and Konqueror. On many web sites where the !"§$%& and öäüß etc are I see only a black diamond with a question mark in it. Any ideas why this is and how to fix it?

Thanks,

JIM

This has nothing to do with vista, it is just a question of the character encoding used on that web page. Usually a webpage identifies the used encoding in the source code with something like <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> If this indication is missing (or wrong) the browser doesn't know which character table it should use to display the chars correctly and it uses its default encoding (which on Suse 10. usually might be utf-8). It's also possible, that you have set the characters encoding for your browser to a specifiv encoding instead of "Auto". In this case you can change the characters encoding via menu->view->character encoding. German language sites often use ISO-8859-1, in seamonkey this is in menu->view->character encoding->More encodings->West European->Western (ISO 8859-1). For pages with correct charset identification you can always use Auto-Detect->Universal. Using no or the wrong character encoding often happens when people write their code on Win-PC's, because Win-Users don't have any idea of anything (or they would not use Win...). They think they just write "text", but if you don't explicitely tell Win to use a reasonable encoding it might use something Win-specific which is always the contrary of useful. So just play around with different encodings on such pages until the page displays correctly. regards Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org