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Introduction
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A web page with national characters?
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There are two ways to put non-ASCII characters in a Web page:
- using local character set; or
- using unicode character set.
There are many local character sets provided
(for example Central European,
Greek, Chinese, Japanese, etc.). For displaying these
pages you will need
support for the particular character set.
Unicode,
on the other hand is a new standard for multi character sets
text. Unicode includes sets mentioned above (and many others).
For unicode
you will need a browser which understands unicode...
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How does my browser get informed about web page character set?
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The web server may be configured in a way to inform
the browser about
character set before downloading the page.
This would be nice.
However, very often character set name is available from inside
of a document only,
using so called META tag.
In such a case your
browser may, or may not understand this. Sometimes you
must reload the
page, or set the charset
information manually
(usually via the View menu),
to display the page properly.
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So what should I do with my browser?
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Netscape (Unix, Windows, Mac, ...)
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Just download fonts, install in your system, then in Netscape
preferences enable them.
In unix-like system to enable unicode, install
all national fonts you need, Netscape will map the characters
properly.
For other systems you will need unicode font, see:
Netscape font resources.
I am using Cyberbit.ZIP font.
If you need more information, consult
Netscape Web pages,
look for international support.
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MS Internet Explorer
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Contact
Microsoft Web pages,
select Support, then select Updates
or something.
Install ``XXX Text Display Support''
where XXX stays for the language you desire.
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Tested environments
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We have tested successfully following environments:
- Netscape Navigator 4.*
- MS Internet Explorer 5.0, NT4.0+SP4
- MS Internet Explorer 5.0, Windows 98
You should not expect successes with:
May, or may not work:
- MS Internet Explorer 5.0, Windows 95
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Links
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To check, whether your browser understands unicode and other
foreign characters, please visit this
page.
You will find much more information
here.
Please note, that some of the links may not work - Internet
changes every second...
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