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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:
> I'd like to use Starostin's compilation of etymological
> dictionaries at: http://ehl.santafe.edu/cgi-bin/main.cgi
> but I'm having font problems and don't get much help from
the "help" > page. Pokorny (the one I'd most like)is useable, but
with some false > characters; Vasmer is total garbage. I'm using
Windows XP accessed by > Firefox (although I could use Internet
Explorer). > Any suggestions about installing the right fonts would
be welcome.
Dear daniel,
I assume you have a Unicode UTF-8 font installed on your PC. If you
have none, you can easily download one (named 'TITUS Cyberbit
Basic') at the TITUS website at
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm
(click on `Unicode Development Resources' on the navigation panel on
the right, and then follow instructions for download)
If you already have a Unicode UTF-8 font installed on your PC,
perhaps your problem derives from the fact that `View options' in
your browser are set to `Western encoding' rather than to the
Unicode UTF-8 setting, which is needed to read the characters. In
Explorer (if that is your browser), select `View' --> `Character
set' --> `Unicode UTF-8' (or, in other versions of
Explorer, `Universal alphabet UTF-8').
Also, on `Tools' select `Internet options' --> `Fonts', and then
select your Unicode UTF-8 font in the `Web page font' list on the
left. Before you exit, remember to clik on 'OK' on both the 'Fonts'
window and the 'Internet options' window. This operation is also
necessary to read the characters.
Finally, on the specific database page you are browsing thru you
have to click (just once when you start your search on Starostin's
databases) on the `Change viewing parameters' link, and then
select `Utf-8'.
Hope this helps,
Francesco Brighenti