Using Unicode Diacritic Fonts In Browsers

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Displaying Unicode Diacritics in Browsers on Windows

Contributor(s): Nathaniel Grove.

Windows: Internet Explorer

  1. Download a Unicode font. If it is in a .zip file, unzip it and store in a temporary folder.
  2. From the Start Menu, choose Settings, then Control Panel.
  3. Open the Fonts folder.
  4. Place the Unicode font in the fonts folder or From the File menu of the fonts folder, choose Install New Font … And choose the Unicode font file.
  5. Then, open Internet Explorer.
  6. Choose Internet Options from the Tools menu.
  7. Click the Font button.
  8. Choose the Unicode font just installed as the Web page font.

Windows: Firefox

  1. Download a Unicode font. If it is in a .zip file, unzip it and store in a temporary folder.
  2. From the Start Menu, choose Settings, then Control Panel.
  3. Open the Fonts folder.
  4. Place the Unicode font in the fonts folder or From the File menu of the fonts folder, choose Install New Font … And choose the Unicode font file.
  5. Then, open Netscape.
  6. Choose Character set from the View menu.
  7. Choose Unicode (UTF-8).
  8. Choose Preferences from the Edit menu.
  9. Choose the Font category.
  10. Change Encoding to Unicode.
  11. Change Variable width font to Arial Unicode MS.

Displaying Unicode diacritics in browsers on the Mac OS X:

Macintosh: Netscape 6

Netscape 6 on the Macintosh is the easiest to use because no set up is required other than installing a Unicode fonts.

  1. Download and install a Unicode font.
  2. Download and install Netscape 6, if not already installed.
  3. Run Netscape 6.

Printing Unicode Fonts:

If some of the characters do not print correctly but come out malformed or as a completely different character, try the following:

  1. From the printer's dialog box, choose Properties and check the box that says "Print True Type fonts as graphics".
  2. Make sure you have the latest version of the printer's driver installed.

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