[WEB4LIB] Re: foreign language characters in browsers

[Isabel Danforth]

My understanding is that within the Windows 2000 environment Microsoft
applications handle multilingual tasks very well.  Office 2000 Applications
can use any font and deal with those languages that run right to left such
as Arabic and Hebrew, as well as our left to right characters. 

Within Win2000 there is no need for separate window operating systems, but
you only need to install the multi language support package.

Isabel



At 06:12 PM 09/13/2000 -0700, Bin Zhang wrote:
>Hi, Julia,
>
>IE has a much better support for foreign languages then Netscape.  With
>the latest version of IE, you should be able to view both Japanese and
>Arabic.  Of course, you need to installed the optional language support
>from IE site.  They are not installed by default.
>
>With IE, you can also input CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) without an
>external software (such as NJStar).  To input Arabic, you probably have
>to get a program to do it.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Bin
>
>
>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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