When I view a page like 'Greek alphabet' on the English Wikipedia unicode characters are displayed as 'empty boxes'.
I thought Windows (I use XP) would automatically offer to download any fonts needed to display special unicode characters. It doesn't.
My suggestion: would it be useful on each page that contains unicode to automatically add a link to a help page that gives hints and tips for enabling unicode on popular browsers?
Erik Zachte
epzachte@chello.nl wrote:
When I view a page like 'Greek alphabet' on the English Wikipedia unicode characters are displayed as 'empty boxes'.
I thought Windows (I use XP) would automatically offer to download any fonts needed to display special unicode characters. It doesn't.
My suggestion: would it be useful on each page that contains unicode to automatically add a link to a help page that gives hints and tips for enabling unicode on popular browsers?
Sorry, but I think if we start placing Information about such problems on _each_ page we have missed something. There are FAQ and Manual links on each page, if you put the information there it will be enought.
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