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Certain websites my neighbours go to display foreign languages using their own fonts (which they provide for download). They used to run FF1.5, and only recently upgraded to FF3 after I formatted their computer and reinstalled Windows on it. Previously, installing these fonts was sufficient for the webpage to render properly. This is the case with IE7, it shows the page properly. However, FF3 still doesn't show it right, and instead shows me gibberish characters. How can I get FF3 to use the fonts I've installed, and that the website is clearly calling for? I don't really know what the issue is, so I haven't had much luck searching for the solution.

Phantasee wrote:Certain websites my neighbours go to display foreign languages using their own fonts (which they provide for download). They used to run FF1.5, and only recently upgraded to FF3 after I formatted their computer and reinstalled Windows on it. Previously, installing these fonts was sufficient for the webpage to render properly. This is the case with IE7, it shows the page properly. However, FF3 still doesn't show it right, and instead shows me gibberish characters. How can I get FF3 to use the fonts I've installed, and that the website is clearly calling for? I don't really know what the issue is, so I haven't had much luck searching for the solution.

As a Norwegian who currently lives in japan and interfaces with most of the web in English I know those problems all to well. Try going to "View>Character Encoding>Auto Detect" and select whichever language the website is displayed in to be the default, and it should in my experience show up correctly. (Alternatively try going for Unicode instead)

That's the thing, the language isn't one of the standard ones. It's some Indian language (it's not Hindi) and this website just uses a font to make things show up right. That's why it's gibberish without the font. The font just makes the letters look right, if you copy and paste it's still gibberish once you change the font.