Mozilla Help
 

Okay I know a couple of people have to be using Mozilla.

I just made the switch today, and I whole heartedly reccomend it to everyone it's so much faster than IE or Netscape. It also stops pop-ups, has a bunch of other really good features....

Anyway, if you use Mozilla can you tell me how to set it up so that I see everyone's signatures in the greek letters they are supposed to be. Basically I guess the browser isn't recognizing symbol notation, anyone know how to change that?

I have yet to figure that out, actually.

I've tried fiddling with the default font options here and there, the only thing I can say is that when I looked at the page source for the forums the font tags didn't seem to indicate any change, maybe it's a support issue with vbulletin and mozilla.

If anyone has any insight, please let me know. I love mozilla but giant pink Qs and Ws and things are disconcerting

You Can, But You'd Better Know What You're Doing.
 

Without getting too technical, the rendering engines in Mozilla/Netscape 7.1 are completely different than in Internet Explorer. This means nothing to the average web user, but it's a good thing for anyone who does web development.

You can make the change, but if you don't know anything about editing preference files, you'd probably be better off just turning signatures on GC.

Here's the fix:

Fixing Netscape 6+ and Mozilla to access symbol font
I am very grateful to Ian Hutchinson for providing the following fix. (NOTE: This fix applies ONLY to version 6 and later of Netscape Navigator, and to Mozilla. In particular, it is not needed on versions of Netscape Navigator up to 4.)

In the file

fontEncoding.properties

(which is located in the directory

\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape\res\fonts

under the default installation of Netscape 7.0, and in

\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\res\fonts

under the default installation of Mozilla 1.0), change the line

encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding

to

encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252

Ah HA!

I knew there had to be something in there, but with my web technique still in the toddler stage, I couldn't figure out what it was (and my programmer roommate is an anti-mozilla snob and didn't feel like helping me).

Thank you so much.

You're welcome. :) I should add that it doesn't work on Mozilla for Macintoshes.

Bumping because I always need this thread when I download a new version of Firefox.

Wait I dont understand what what the original question was.....I use Mozilla and can see Greek Letters in the signatures......so can someone clarify the original question......and I know its like four years old, but I am curious if there is something that I missed...especially with Senurset saying he has to re-do it every time he downloads a new version of Mozilla

Bumping because this ish ain't working for me anymore lol.... le sigh