Thank you Yong Peng,
I changed the View to Western (ISO-8859-1) and changed the Tools default
character encoding to Western (ISO-8859-1) and then the characters display
properly, until I refresh the page, then they default back to UTF-8 and then
the tilde's once again don't display. Do you know what other place I need
to change the setting so that it doesn't keep defaulting back to UTF-8?

thanks,
Diipaa
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On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ong Yong Peng <palismith@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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 <Pali%40yahoogroups.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.
>
>
>


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