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Old 7th December 2008
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Default Fluxbox + Firefox = UTF8 title problem..

Hi, folks!

Yesterday I decided to try out Fluxbox - it's simple, fast and I like it a lot!

Anyway, after installing Firefox I've noticed that I'm having problems viewing pages in utf-8, and to be more exact the problem is only when displaying the title which appear as some strange characters..

The problem occurs only when viewing non-english sites, but the strange thing is that they use utf-8 as their encoding and the only problem is as I said when displaying the title.

I'm running Gnome2 as well and there is no such a problem, so I think that the problem must be Fluxbox related. Anyone having such a problem?

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks!
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Just a guess, as I don't use Gnome, is that perhaps Gnome does some extra work in automatically setting locales.

Are you able to solve the issue by going to View=>Character Encoding?
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Just a guess, as I don't use Gnome, is that perhaps Gnome does some extra work in automatically setting locales.

Are you able to solve the issue by going to View=>Character Encoding?
I don't use GNOME either, but installed it just to check if the problem occurs in GNOME too.

Anyway, the encoding is properly set, but the only thing that does not show right is the title of the page.

I've attached a screenshot, note the squares that appear as page title.

Name:  ff-fluxbox.jpg
Views: 1298
Size:  25.7 KB

I don't have much experience with Fluxbox, but I think the problem has something to do with Fluxbox?
I've googled around, but didn't find anything..
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Ah, when it's squares like that, it means that something isn't find the proper fonts. I'm darned if I know what though. (as opposed to incorrect encoding where it simply looks like gibberish, rather than squares.)
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The strange thing is that I have all the needed fonts already installed.

The pages that these squares appear are cyrillic, but they should appear normal, since they use UTF-8.

Don't know what's happening.. No matter which browser I use under Fluxbox these squares appear.

Any other WM - GNOME, KDE, etc. displays the title normal..

Is there some additional ports/programs that need to be installed with Fluxbox in order to recognize the fonts?

Thanks, for your help scottro!
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You should change the window.font: with one providing the necessary glyphs.
DejaVu comes to mind.
FYI, an increasing number of applications home pages now have a wiki
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Change_font
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Thanks for the link!

Unfortunately, after reading the info at this Wiki, my Fluxbox keeps displaying these squares.

I've set session.styleOverlay: ~/.fluxbox/overlay in ~/.fluxbox/init and the following lines to ~/.fluxbox/overlay

Code:
menu.title.font: sans-10:bold
toolbar.clock.font: sans-10:bold
toolbar.workspace.font: sans-10:bold
.font: sans-8
That didn't work, so I used xfontsel to create this font:
Code:
 -monotype-arial-*-*-*-*-17-120-*-100-*-*-microsoft-cp1251
Now I don't see any squares, because on all cyrillic pages the title does not even appear... What am I missing here?
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Hi, again!

The problem was to easy too solve - just setting LANG=bg_BG.CP1251 solved the problem

It seems that the other WM that I've been using set LANG by default, while Fluxbox doesn't..

Anyway, everything is OK now. Thanks everyone!
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