User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2 http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/ All Hindi text is written as question marks (?????). Firefox (Mac) seems not to support indic scripts. The fun thing is, the Firefox window does support it. See the title, there are the right characters, probably put there by the operating system. Screenshot here: http://i2.tinypic.com/vgsaio.jpg The same problem on the BBC Hindi page, millions of question marks: http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/ This Indian page (http://www.sandesh.com/) shows no indic letters, no question marks, but lots of stange symbols. See screenshot: http://i2.tinypic.com/vgsavc.jpg Configuration: Firefox 1.5.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.6 Other browsers like Safari, Shiira or iCab do display the indic scripts. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: Display of indic scripts.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205476 ***

Meanwhile I found a workaround. Obviously FF/Moz/Gecko cannot handle the factory-installed Devanagari/Hindi/Gujarati fonts on MacOSX. Solution: Install the OpenSource-fonts "FreeSans" and "FreeSerif". Now MacOSX 10.4 displays Indic scripts perfectly. I had the same questionmark problem with Armenian on MacOSX in FF/Moz/Gecko (but I don't know, if MacOSX supports this script from factory). I installed the font "Arial Unicode MS" which ships with several Windows applications. Now Armenian runs flawlessly too. I hope this may help some people with font problems.