From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 39536
Date: 2005-08-06
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>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"
> wrote:on
>
> > 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
> 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