Viewing Chinese websites in US version of Firefox and IE

Hello All,

Having a bit of a problem … our office just updated to new desktops, so I downloaded a copy of Firefox 0.9.2. However, unlike the full version of Mozilla browser (don’t remember the exact number, but it was one point something, and used a red dinosaur icon), the language support doesn’t seem to work in Firefox. I have gone to the options dialogs, and under the “langauges” support added various flavors of traditional Chinese, as well as simplified. But Chinese pages still don’t read, I just get question mark symbols where the characters should appear, or, in the case of China Television’s website, crash the browser. I have restarted the computer, etc., no luck.

I have also tried adding Chinese support to IE 6 on my new desktop, but it tells me to add the Win XP install disc 1, which is not a possibility.

On my old desktop, installing Chinese on IE seemed to be a matter of downloading some type of plugin from the microsoft site. I can’t remember how things worked in the full version of Mozilla, but I could read Chinese.

Anyone know a fix for Firefox or IE? or a workaround?

Thanks!

[quote=“klaxon”]the language support doesn’t seem to work in Firefox. … I have also tried adding Chinese support to IE 6 on my new desktop, but it tells me to add the Win XP install disc 1, which is not a possibility. … Anyone know a fix for Firefox or IE? or a workaround?
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Answered my own questions – the problem was related to a lack of unicode fonts. I copied some into my “fonts” folder, restarted the computer, and both Firefox and IE now display Chinese. China TV’s site still crashes Firefox, but that’s probably related to a flash blocking extension I installed in Firefox.