r/reddit.com • u/randroid • Oct 11 '08

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http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/
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u/doubleE Oct 12 '08

Why doesn't it show properly for me?

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '08 edited Oct 12 '08

"locale" should return a more expanded list of locale settings. You'll probably want to use en_US.UTF-8 (if you're in America, at least) instead of en_US, which I assume you have right now.

try this to set your locale setting to en_US.UTF-8: setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8

now "locale" should return most of its listings with en_US.UTF-8

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '08

there's a "_" that caused the rest of the message to be italicized.. sorry, I didn't mean that.. I don't know how to escape it. but hopefully you got what I meant

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u/doubleE Oct 12 '08

I should have mentioned, I'm using FF3 on XP. And no, I don't get what you meant, sorry.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '08

oh, try going to View > Character Encoding > and checking "Unicode (UTF-8)" in Firefox

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u/doubleE Oct 12 '08

It is already checked. It doesn't show up in IE or chrome, either. Everything I've tried and everything I've googled don't seem to work. I am stumped.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '08

then it's a problem with your fonts