Gibberish in Ubuntu when dealing with documents / websites

[Christopher Chan]

> I am aware of this problem for Hebrew, Russian, and Arabic users (that
> is why I have added those characters to my .sig). I want to know what
> other locales have the issue. For me and other Hebrew uses the issue
> is solved due to the Gibberish translation tool I have written. But I
> would like to expand the tool for all Ubuntu users, not just Hebrew.
> That is why I ask who else is affected.
> 

I can tell you that Traditional Chinese versions of Windows use BIG5 
encoding and Simplified Chinese versions of Windows use yet another 
encoding, GB2312.

I dont know what you are doing on the documents side but the problem 
with websites is that sometimes the encoding used is not set on the 
pages and so they show up as gibberish. Otherwise, Firefox would display 
the stuff properly.