Russian fonts

Is there a way for international fonts like Russian to appear correctly? Right now, they are appearing as question marks although when I do a search in google, it does seem to recognize what I inputted.

Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Oct 27, 2007 4:58 PM

28 replies

Oct 28, 2007 6:43 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

they suck!
i want my firefox with native cyrillic.

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 28, 2007 6:48 AM in response to mattsonster

i want my firefox with native cyrillic.

Then go ask the people who make it to fix it or find the workaround. Make sure you tell them they are the only browser with the problem.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4

Oct 28, 2007 7:11 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

done. waiting for help

Oct 28, 2007 7:42 AM in response to mattsonster

problem solved - install a russian version of firefox and everything will be fine. i hate russian menus though.

Oct 29, 2007 6:02 PM in response to Katrina Barrios

Cyrillic doesn't work in Firefox on 10.5. Wait for a fix from Mozilla. In the meantime enjoy Safari. I really like this version.

foxberg

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Oct 30, 2007 8:51 AM in response to mattsonster

That's not really a solution for those who use an English version of Firefox. It is the only program (that I came across of, that is) that has some problems with displaying Russian fonts. Indeed, Mozilla guys should release an update to resolve this issue. I wonder if there's a problem with any other languages?

solefald

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Nov 7, 2007 2:22 PM in response to Katrina Barrios

Ok, i found an easy fix for this.

Quit Firefox. Go to your Applications folder, find Firefox icon Cmd+Click on it and select "Show Packages Contents" from the menu.
Go into Contents -> Resources folder and rename en.lproj to ru.lproj.
Start Firefox again, and everything should work correctly... well, beside for 1 minor sideeffect. Your main Firefox menu will still be in Russian.

cooperz

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Nov 10, 2007 2:03 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I am having the same problem in Mail, Safari and Firefox. Emails in Russian are displayed as question marks (even if you change the encoding). In the browsers, some Russian strings are displayed as question marks (for example when I use translit.ru to spellcheck my Russian). I do have русскии on my list in system prefs/international/input menu.
On Tiger everything was working perfectly.

Please advice what can be done. Thank you.

foxberg

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Nov 30, 2007 2:39 PM in response to cooperz

I have no such problems in Safari. I understand that you have Russian in your input menu but did you install Russian fonts on your computer? I just opened Safari and went to rambler.ru and it displayed me a page with Russian fonts and I didn't have to change any encoding anywhere.

Tom Gewecke

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Nov 30, 2007 3:45 PM in response to foxberg

did you install Russian fonts on your computer?

There's no way to not have Russian fonts on a Mac, since Lucida Grande is what is normally used.

Tom Gewecke

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Nov 30, 2007 3:48 PM in response to cooperz

Emails in Russian are displayed as question marks (even if you change the encoding).

For Mail, if you tried all the Cyrillic encodings plus UTF-8, then the emails are probably corrupted by the sending end.

In the browsers, some Russian strings are displayed as question marks (for example when I use translit.ru to spellcheck my Russian).

Can you give another example that does not work right with Safari? As for FireFox, it has bugs.

isolzh

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Dec 11, 2007 6:48 AM in response to solefald

Brilliant. This worked perfectly for me. Fast, simple, and better than downloading the full Russian version of Firefox. Clearly, the Firefox folks need to fix this, as it only started happening after upgrading to Leopard (Safari and other browsers continue to work perfectly). But meanwhile this is a terrific workaround - thank you.

Tom Gewecke

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Dec 11, 2007 7:07 AM in response to isolzh

You might want to try Firefox 3 and see if it works better:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

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