On 11/21/2014 12:39 PM, Dale Snell wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:55:19 -0800 > Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The documentation for BRL-CAD is a series of html files stored >> locally. When I open them in Firefox, on some lines I have a number >> of the character A with a carat over the top. When I look at the same >> files in Chromium I see indented lines. Does anyone know what is >> causing Firefox to render this differently from Chromium? > Sounds to me like a character encoding issue. Make sure that Chromium > and Firefox are both set to the same encoding. It should be Unicode, > but you never know.
Chromium says UTF-8. In Firefox Preferences > Content > Fonts > Advanced it says: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Character Encoding for Legacy Content This character encoding is used for legacy content that fails to declare its encoding. Fallback Character Encoding: Default for Current Locale. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running locale shows me that Ubuntu 12.04 is set for UTF-8. > Also, check the HTML files to see what character set they declare. E.g., > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> There are no <meta> lines in the file, but the page source shows: <!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?--> > It could be that they declare one thing, then use another. Sometimes > several others. :-( Firefox (and I assume [*cough-cough*] Chromium) > will set their encoding to match what the file declares. Which then > gets fouled up when they hit the wrongly-encoded text. You might try > selecting different encodings in Firefox, just to see what happens. > > Hope this helps. Well, it didn't change anything, but it did cause me to find out where to look for those things in both browsers. Thanks for the response. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
