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I'm having a problem with Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text appearing. for example, Wikipedia's home page has the links to the homepages in other languages. Arabic, cryllic, etc. text shows up correctly. but the three I just mentioned doesn't.

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I go to websites that use a lot of Japanese characters (kanji) and some Korean (Hangul/Hanja). it's the same on other websites as well.

I go to websites that use a lot of Japanese characters (kanji) and some Korean (Hangul/Hanja). it's the same on other websites as well.

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Make sure that you have installed East Asian language support:

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Make sure that you have installed East Asian language support:

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Since upgrading to Firefox 10, I had trouble viewing Chinese characters in Horde email. I have tried the following but it still doesn't display the text correctly.

1) Installed East Asian language support on my Windows XP

2) Tried different character encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, on Firefox

Observations

a) The error message I see on Horde email is "This message was written in a character set (gbk) other than your own."

b) All the Chinese characters are displayed as the question mark character ("?")

Viewing of Chinese text in Firefox 9 is perfectly fine as I have verified this by downgrading Firefox.

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Try to set the Boolean pref gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading to false on the about:config page or maybe disable DirectWrite (gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled -> false).


So this doesn't work either: 所有的中文字符显示为问号(“?”