[WEB4LIB] multi language support

[Sara Brownmiller]

We did install a variety of non-Roman fonts on public workstations last
spring.  We offer both Netscape and IE on our public workstations.  The
setup for IE was much easier than for Netscape, which involved more
testing and tracking down fonts which could be used. It was our experience
that not all of the Microsoft fonts worked with Netscape.

We also provide a set of Tips pages for patrons, and librarians, to assist
in changing the encoding.  If you are interested you can see these at
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/systems/pubterms/help/font.html.  The Tips are
an icon that is always available on the desktop.

Sara

Sara Brownmiller			snb at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Systems/Women's Studies Librarian	541/346-2368	
University of Oregon Library		541/346-3485 (fax)
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR  97403-1299

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Andrew Mutch wrote:

> We've had some request from patrons who would like to enable Netscape Navigator
> [ver. 4.08] to be able to display pages in languages other than English.  My
> understanding [and reading from past Web4Lib posts] is that you need to change
> the encoding in the Prefences settings to enable the display of these foreign
> language character sets.  However, what if your language doesn't appear in this
> list?  What needs to be installed to make these available?  From some of the
> past lists, there was references to language sets that could downloaded from
> Microsoft - would these work with Netscape too?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
>