Firefox not displaying special characters

[punkcabbage]

Hi all,

I have a problem with firefox and cant figure it out.

It doesnt display a bunch of special characters, which includes both asian language characters and mathematical symbols. It displays a box with two numbers in it.

All hits that i found on google tell me to go Tools -> Options -> Content -> Fonts & Colours -> Advanced, and change the default character encoding to Unicode UTF-8.

This doesnt fix the problem, the strange boxes are still there. Screenshot of the problem is here - http://tinyurl.com/m9gmrq
In this case, i think the characters are chinese? Not sure, the weblink that the shot was taken of is here - http://www.n2c.com.au/content/blogcategory/15/38/

Can anyone help?

Thanks heaps!!

[glc]

Do they display properly in any other browsers?

[punkcabbage]

Ach, i knew i'd forget to mention something!

No, they don't display in IE either, but they simply appear as boxes, no numbers in them like for firefox.

[Force Flow]

Try this:

http://lifehacker.com/software/windo...tly-273571.php

[punkcabbage]

Ok, found those checkboxes and ticked them, it asks for my Windows CD, which I insert - but it cant find the files on the CD Searched manually through the CD for a few of the files it asked for, and the search results came up empty.

Every resource i can find says that i need the windows CD, and the language pack is not available online.
(eg. http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/h...pintlsupp.mspx,
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/32...-language-pack,
and theres more... )

But i am thoroughly confused - im pretty sure i have used this disc to install windows before and not had a problem with special characters.

And yes, my copy IS legitimate - its an OEM version, would that make a difference? Thats the only thing i can think of.

Thanks a bunch to glc and Force Flow