Scandinavian characters

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(Disclaimer: newbie)
Hi!
I've bought a theme called MerchWear.
This theme uses the arial font, and some times uses the transformation to upper case. However, in some blocks the norwegian letters æøå disappears, and I can't seem to figure out why, or where I have to go to fix this.
I've checked typography.css and iGotStyle.css, and I cannot find any reference to any other font face than the arial.

I might be asking in a stupid way, but do any of you have any good tips on where to go to fix this?
http://effektsrg.no - as you can see, in the menu bar the Ø-letter is intact, but in the bottom nav, it has disappeared. As well as an Å-letter in this theme's "showcase-block".

Any tips will be most appreciated.

-Einar

Sunfield
 
wagdi replied on at Permalink Reply
wagdi
You may want to try asking the theme developer.

You can open a support ticket with him here- http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/themes/merchwear/support/...
adajad replied on at Permalink Reply
adajad
It sounds like a character set issue. Those might be tough to find and it might even come down to the template files not being saved originally with the correct encoding.
Sunfield replied on at Permalink Reply
Sunfield
I found out how to go about this,
the theme uses cufon, so it replaces the font with a defined helvetica-font, which has no support for these characters.
In functions.js, I searched for cufon.replace, and took a shortcut by replacing a few lines.
Cufon.replace(".simpleLogoBlock .logoDescription, #featuredContent2 .line1", { fontFamily: "Helvetica Neue Light Condensed" });
to 
Cufon.replace(".simpleLogoBlock .logoDescription, #featuredContent2 .line1", { fontFamily: "Verdana" });

which solved part of the issue.
Not as pretty, and I can't change the
Cufon.replace(".powerSliderContainer .powerSlide .largeText, #featuredContent a span", { fontFamily: "Helvetica Neue Light Condensed", textShadow: "2px 2px rgba(1,3,0,0.3)" });
as this screws with the design/layout, and fixing it is beyond my understanding of code :)

Thanks for your replies..!