You can try to specify the encoding of current page (test.txt) to UTF-8. after you download the webpage, maybe the page saved is GB2312 encoded.
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:08:55 -0800 Jean-Michel besnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can read the hanzi from different chinese websites, however when I try to > read my own files with firefox I only get weird characters. > As an example, I have written some characters in a file called test.txt > available at http://www.besnard.org/~besnard/test.txt > > the 'file' utility says: > $file test.txt > test.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text > > a screenshot in gedit: > http://www.besnard.org/~besnard/gedit.png > > a screenshot of the file once open in firefox: > http://www.besnard.org/~besnard/firefox.png > > Again, I generally have no problems browsing chinese simplified characters > while browsing website with Firefox. > > Another interesting phenomenon: > if I download a webpage in chinese (e.g http://www.china.com/index.html) and > then open it with gedit, then all the chinese characters look as weird as the > above mentioned one's I get in Firefox. > > Thanks, > > Jean-Michel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://SuperMMX.org 自由世界 This dungeon is owned and operated by Frobozz Magic Co., Ltd.