Dear Traveller and Piya,

that is correct. Tipitaka.net has a test page for anyone to check if
their browser can display Unicode characters:

http://www.tipitaka.net/forge/forge.php?article=unicode

For web purposes, in order to display Unicode characters, the system
will require

1. at least one Unicode font installed. This sounds simple, but it
has to be a Unicode font which contains the Pali characters. The
more popular Unicode fonts, such as Arial Unicode, Gentium and
Tahoma are some examples.

2. the web browser program has to support UTF-8 encoding. All latest
versions of the popular browsers do that, but older computers may
not run them well.

Piya, when you copy text from a web-page into another program, such
as a word processor, it has to support Unicode display to render the
text correctly.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, traveller wrote:

There should be no need to change char encoding each time, the page
below mentions font problem and the email address to report errors.

http://www.tipitaka.org/unicode/ers.html