Ok I'll get Firefox.

Thank you for everybody's help :)

i still dont get unicode, and i dont want to take the time to understand
it...i just wanna get by!!

June

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Walter Stanish <walter@...> wrote:
>
> > Suppose I were to copy and paste the
> > word "Koṇḍaññassa" into the google search box,
what I get back are
> > weird characters. The long vowels work fine, but when it comes to
the
> > dots over or under the characters, you get boxes.
>
> If you see the correct search results, and click them to see those
pages
> load correctly, I wouldn't be concerned about a few characters off in
> the page summaries. Unicode browsing still isn't 100% mature and it
> wouldn't be too weird to find obscure bugs in browsers (or even
Google!)
> at this stage. Personally I can see those characters OK, but they do
> appear strangely (as if Mozilla has gone out to find another font that
> can render them correctly). I'd suggest first checking that your
> browser is set to unicode rendering (UTF8), or failing that install
> Mozilla or Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/) if you haven't already.
>
> - Walter