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Replies: 4Last Post Dec. 9, 2008 11:58am by marshmellowman
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hi,

i want to know how i can enable foreign characters (er, i suppose certain east asian characters?) on my mac. i've tried playing around in international settings but it's still a no-go. (even tried changing the character encoding settings on firefox)

whenever a character comes up that my computer does not recognize, i get a tiny little box with letters in it rather than displaying the actual character.

i mean it's totally not necessary but i'm missing out on cool emoticons without them displaying properly.

hell it may be a problem with ff and not my computer itself.

if anyone knows how i can fix this, halp plz.

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Buy a PC?  Lolz

Maybe you need to change your font to something which contains the right characters.

Have you tried Googling Eastern Language Support for Macs?


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Quote: from Spuddlesworth at 2:20 pm on Dec. 9, 2008

Buy a PC? Lolz

Maybe you need to change your font to something which contains the right characters.

Have you tried Googling Eastern Language Support for Macs?


funny thing is i believe macs are inherently more supportive for most world languages over pcs. i don't know what the problem is, like i said. it could rather just be a problem with my character display settings in firefox... i haven't tried looking at the characters in safari.

idk

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It should be enabled by default. Macs come with pre-existing support for foreign character sets, unlike Windows. If you're having trouble I'd insert the Mac OS X installation disk and start the Optional Installs package (in the Main directory). Then Click select "Additional fonts" which will "Install additional fonts with support for Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tibetan, Armenian, Cherokee and Inuktitut."

I just checked on my Mac and the checkbox is blanked out because it's already installed.

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