chinese websites on linux.

I cant seem to view the chinese websites on mozilla with linux. I ve installed the language packs...but im not sure how to incorporate it into Mozilla so i can view chinese websites..anyone know how?

 

I think you're going to have to download the language packs for Firefox. Go here for help. I can view chinese sites just fine on my web browser. ???

 

I agree.. I have no problem viewing chinese websites using Firefox. I don't recall installing any language packs...

 

this is very weird...i went to sina.com...and i would see half the characters and the other half i would see blocks. very weird...how is it possible that i see half of the characters.

 

I just went to sina.com and all characters are in chinese...

 

yea theres nothing wrong with the site, im on my desktop and i see the characters fine but its the laptop that is running on linuxmint that is not seeing the chinese correctly.

 

I can verify that on my Ubuntu 6.10 install, I can view Chinese characters perfectly.

I would advise against using small-time distros like Linux Mint, while based completely on Ubuntu (and having cool features which save Ubuntu users time), it has a very small user base and the help you get is minimal. Of course, using ubuntuforums.org should answer most of your concerns - but as you point out, there are obviously discrepancies that we cannot help you with.

 

One of my friends installed Linuxmint, and I recall he had to install the following packages ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming to get chinese fonts.
ttf-arphic-ukai - "AR PL ZenKai Uni" Chinese Unicode TrueType font Kaiti style
ttf-arphic-uming - "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni" Chinese Unicode TrueType font Mingti style

You can try to run

sudo apt-get install ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming​

The package names I used are from Breezy and not Edgy, so the names *may* have change, but I don't recall that they did.

 

thanks for the suggestion i will try it out.

 

can anyone help me with this problem i have with chinese characters? Here is the scenario...I opened a .doc file with traditional characters in it...and it views 80 percent of the characters just fine but it skips like one or two words and leaves it as an open space...in my XP computer it sees it just fine but for some reason when i use Ubuntu it doesnt recognizes some characters? I installed the language packs so it cant be that...so im really at a lost now.

 

I'm guessing it's a font issue; the freefonts that come with Ubuntu may just not have all the traditional characters (there are thousands, after all). Did you try changing it to a different font temporarily, to see if that works?