[WEB4LIB] foreign language characters in browsers

[Florence Tang]

IE does a great job with multiple languages.  Go to View, Encoding
and then More.  Choose which language you want.  You will be taken to
the IE website to download the encoding.  The only thing bad about
this is that you need to know which encoding a webpage is supposed to
be in.  It can present an Arabic webpage in Chinese characters which
do not make any sense until you change the encoding to Arabic.

Florence

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Julia Schult wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know of a way to support both Japanese and
> Arabic in Netscape and/or IE?
> 
> I have tried NJWIN to provide our users with Japanese
> language support on the web.  I love it, but I haven't been
> given the funding to buy it for all of our terminals.  We
> have one Saudi student who uses the Web extensively and if
> it is possible, I'd like to help him out, too.  I have not
> been able to find anything for Arabic comparable to NJWIN
> which provides excellent support for
> Chinese/Japanese/Korean.
> 
> ---Julia E. Schult
> Access/Electronic Services Librarian
> Elmira College
> Jschult at elmira.edu
> 
> 
> 

                                         
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Florence Tang                                      tang_fy at mercer.edu
Public Services Librarian                          Phone: (770) 986-3261
Swilley Library / Mercer University Atlanta	   swilley.mercer.edu
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