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Old 01-03-2008
Question character encoding in Fedora6

Hello,

After upgrading the OS from Fedora4 to Fedora6, the firefox
view>character encoding doesn't work anymore. None of the foreign
characters can be displayed, no matter what character encoding to
select.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

bsky
:confused

Last edited by bsky; 01-04-2008 at 11:54 AM..
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Old 01-04-2008
Quote:
yum update firefox
is something you can try, otherwise erase and install firefox, while saving your bookmarks.
 
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