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Need ÆØÃ... in a font of a Wordpress theme

by Preben Frenning
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Hello fellow warriors!

I am currently making a site for a client, and we have chosen a wordpress theme called "Simplenotes".

It's a really cool, simplistic theme, but since the site is in Norwegian, I need support for the Norwegian letters "ÆØÃ...", which is not present at this point.

I realized there was a script on the site that modifies the top-bar, as well as a few different headings, with a spesific font. The name of the script is "Vegur_400-Vegur_700.font.js"

After a bit of googling, I found it on fontspace and found out it has support for the letters I'm after.

How can I implement those letters on my client's site?

All help is well appreciated!

P.S. I have tried with html-codes also, with zero results. Like ;aring etc.
#æøå #font #theme #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    1. A theme in itself is never "supporting" or "not supporting" special characters from different languages. You are way off with that assumption...

    2. Every normal theme author would set the encoding to utf-8 because that's the default for displaying correctly the characters from different alphabets.

    3. Are you sure the encoding of that fancy font and the encoding of the blog are the same? If not, you will always struggle with special characters...

    4. On that fontspace page you linked to... the first thing jumping in your eyes should be the Windows-1252 encoding
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  • Profile picture of the author Preben Frenning
    Thanks a lot for your reply Istvan!
    I know it's not the theme itself, but rather the font that needs to support it. And I don't know a whole lot of code, other than what I have teached myself.

    2. - I believe the standard for the theme is utf-8, as most themes etc. However, there is a script, turning normal headings into another font as pictures it seems. (Which I believe is not great for seo as well...) However, it looks really good compared to removing the script.

    3. No. Haven't got a clue about the encoding of the script. Never seen a script like that before! What do I search for at least? Only thing I can find is: "unicode-range""U+0020-U+201D"". ("lengt 29303, lines 1.)

    4. I have little clue about codes, and even less about that? How do I put it into use? (It seems like a great tip for those knowing what to do, too bad I'm not one of them yet!)

    Thanks,
    -Preben
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    Have you tried one of the WordPress default themes to see if the problem goes away?

    Or is the problem that the script is just not Norwegian compatible ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Preben Frenning
    Yeah. ÆØÃ... works in most wordpress themes. And removing the script also makes ÆØÃ... work as it should, but it removes most of the beauty of the theme we have chosen. =/

    So it really is in the font. I just have no clue how to add it to the font js file..
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    The script uses Cufon.
    here is a tutorial on how to add a font:
    How to use Cufon replacement feature | Template Monster Help
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  • Profile picture of the author Preben Frenning
    Well, I added the plugin, and it now supports ÆØÃ...! It supposedly recognized the font, though it does not look as neat, I think I'll be able to fix it now. Thanks a lot! =D
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