Hi,

I just got a new computer with Windows XP. I, also, was wondering where the old "Input Methods" for foreign languages were. If you run IE6 and right click on any web page, you will get a drop down menu with "encoding" as an entry. Follow the arrow to a long list of encodings. In my case, I chose Japanese and it was installed on demand, in under a minute. Then I left "Encoding" set to "Autoselect." If you are aware of this already, apologies...

As Ever,

Ruth Ifcher

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On Tue, 27 May 2003 12:32:19 +0900, Guillaume Blanchard gblanchard@arcsy.co.jp gave utterance to the following:

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So...perhaps I understood nothing, but do you think Opera 5 is not accepting unicode because of missing polices or does it just not tolerate it at all ?

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I think there are both problem. Even if your browser can handle unicode, you can't see caracters not defined in your font. I'm using MS Arial Unicode with IE6.0 and I still not be able to see 100% of unicode characters. In my case I think it's only a font problem. You can go to this page and look at what percentage of caracters you can see : http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html (it's a UTF8 sample page).

Opera 5 has no unicode support - Opera 6 was the unicode rewrite. Both Opera (6+) and Mozilla support unicode natively - the only thing you have to do to get it working is to install an appropriate font.

However, even if you have the font, IE doesn't display some writing systems until you "install support" by downloading a large patch to your operating system. (A fully multilingual installation of IE6 weighs in at around 85MB)

-- Richard Grevers I hate Victor Hugo said Les miserably

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