歐博思 Posted April 20, 2012 at 01:30 AM Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 at 01:30 AM Currently my Win 7 Ultimate operating system is set to simplified chinese. Now, I want to study some Spanish as well. My problem is when I try to view words with accents. These kind of words display incorrectly as acci髇\ciones or pel韈ula. Trying to fix the problem myself I have tried: System Wide: 1)time/date format to Spanish/Spain (switching to Korean alone fixed my corruption with Starcraft displaying Korean) 2)location to Spain 3) non unicode display language to Spanish/Spain/International Firefox: 1) tried various encoding options, including the latin standard ISO 8859-1. After posting this I am going to switch to the Spanish operating system. I anticipate lots of broken Chinese characters. This will be ok for awhile, but has anyone overcomed this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted April 20, 2012 at 02:30 AM Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 at 02:30 AM Are you talking about Spanish websites not displaying properly? I am using a Chinese version of Windows 7 and in regional settings, have non-Unicode programs set to Chinese, but I can read Spanish website in Firefox just fine. http://elpais.com/ , for example, is fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
歐博思 Posted April 20, 2012 at 04:23 AM Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 at 04:23 AM Lots of pages display fine, such as your link. Some pages like http://wordsgalore.com/wordsgalore/languages/spanish/spanish1000.html will display strange characters. Could you let me know if my link works on your machine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted April 20, 2012 at 04:32 AM Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 at 04:32 AM For that link, the default encoding of Unicode under FIrefox doesn't seem to work for me. Once I change the encoding to Western, then it's fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
歐博思 Posted April 20, 2012 at 04:46 AM Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 at 04:46 AM Which western enconding did you pick? edit：I have narrowed it down. It is a Firefox problem for me. Internet Explorer can display that page correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted April 20, 2012 at 05:24 AM Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 at 05:24 AM Both the ISO and Windows Western encodings work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
歐博思 Posted April 20, 2012 at 05:32 AM Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 at 05:32 AM Mine works now too. I have been going into file>options>advanced instead of file>web developer> I thought I was computer literate :`((((((((( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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