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Title: Viewing Japanese text on NetFront
Post by: Anonymous on December 24, 2003, 02:20:26 am
Hi,

I have recently become proud owner of a Sharp SL-C860, purchased in Japan - I live in Japan (lucky me !!) . I have converted most of the s/w to English, thanks to the tons of information available on the Web. I have just 1 problem I am not able to solve so far. The device has NetFront browser installed. When I open a Japanese page in the browser (e.g., www.zaurusworld.co.jp, the default homepage), I get square boxes instead of Japanese characters.

Would really appreciate any help on this.

Cheers
David
Title: Viewing Japanese text on NetFront
Post by: Stubear on December 24, 2003, 07:48:22 am
Do you still have the original LCFont and helevetica fonts or did you change the helevetica fonts to the US/European version? If you changed them then you are probably out of luck cause the other version doesn\'t support kanji/hiragana/katakana.

If you have the original fonts still try changing the encoding to Japanese Autodetect - tools -] view -] encoding - or one of the other Japanese options (probably shift-jis is its the web).

If that doesn\'t work then you probably changed locale.conf from \"ja\" to \"en\", if so I don\'t think you will get kanji - but it sounds like it\'s most probably a font issue.

Stu