Dear Diipa,

few pages on tipitaka.net require special font, and those that do need only one font, and instructions are available on those pages. However, these are due to be updated so that all pages will be in Unicode. These pages were from the very early days of the site, and I will only update them as time permits.

In anticipation of Unicode, the site has adopted the Velthuis system early such that the number of pages using the special font was minimal (or at least did not keep increasing). These pages, obviously, now present problems with viewing if you choose not to install the additional font.

The problem you are encountering on the Pali-day-by-day pages is not a font problem. You would notice that ~n does not show up in both Velthuis and Unicode, because the original encoding system uses the character ~n different from the default encoding system of the latest browsers (i.e. Unicode). Again, this is another problem I will have to fix. ;-) But, to alleviate the problem, you can take the following steps in FireFox:

1. Click View on the menu bar.
2. Point your mouse to
Character Encoding ...
More Encodings ...
West European ...
Western (ISO-8859-1)
3. Click.

Other browsers can also make similar changes.

metta,
Yong Peng.

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

What do I need to do to get all the fonts on the Tipitika answers page for Pali Primer to display properly? The Unicode button I select and most of the fonts are fine the macron, the dot under etc. What doesn't display is the tilde ~. I use firefox and have selected unicode Times New Roman.