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From: Ryan Schutt <rschutt@vt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Good Web Browser for FreeBSD (or help me make Netscape work)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 21:50:04 -0500
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Peter Seibel wrote:
> 
> Subject sort of says it all. I've got Netscape on a FreeBSD box and it sort of
> works but it gives a whole bunch of "Translation table" (or some such) errors

I had the same exact problem.

Netscape needs to look at two environment variables to work
properly.  You need to make sure you have
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB , and
XNLSPATH=$WHERE_YOU_INSTALLED/nls/

Hope this helps,

Ryan