Re: Unicode and MS-IE 6 on Win2K
From: Elijah Landreth [MSFT] (a-elijal_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/10/04
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:39:28 -0400
To install a font by dragging or pasting a font file
1.. Find the font file you want to install (on a floppy disk, network
share, or vendor?s Web site).
2.. Drag or paste the font into the \winnt\fonts directory, for example
c:\winnt\fonts.
To install fonts through Control Panel
1.. From the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2.. Double-click Fonts.
3.. Click File, and then click Install New Font.
4.. Browse your local computer or the network to find the location of the
font files to be installed.
5.. Select all fonts you want to install, and then click OK.
Fonts
Unicode is a 16-bit character set that contains all of the characters
commonly used in information processing, including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic,
Indic, Thai, Kana, and Hangul characters, punctuation marks, and ideographs.
Unicode is a standard supported by members of the Unicode Consortium.
Unicode is not a technology in itself, and does not solve international
engineering issues.
Unicode is language-independent, helping conserve space in the character
map. Characters are not assigned to specific languages, for example ?a? can
be used in French, German, or English. Similarly, a particular Han ideograph
might map to a character used in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. Unicode may
not appear correct to viewers of a particular language because characters or
ideographs are abstracted. To solve this issue, use a font that recreates a
language?s particular representation of the character, rather than seeking
an alternate Unicode character.
Although the majority of the Unicode character space is used, approximately
a third of the 64,000 possible code points are still unassigned, allowing
for additional characters in the future, and for private use and
compatibility issues.
This is a great resource for font information:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.mspx
You can also try changing your view in IE to unicode.
-- Elijah Landreth [MSFT] Enterprise Platform Support This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Fred Ma" <fma@doe.carleton.ca> wrote in message news:409F309D.F19D7C3A@doe.carleton.ca... > Hi, > > I'm viewing math symbols at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols > and can't see them all (some are just boxes). That page > says to check http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ent4_frame.html > to see my unicode support. I can see most, but not all the > characters there. Using Lucida Sans Unicode for Latin > based fonts didn't help (I also tried changing the > encoding to Unicode UTF-8. When I searched for > "arial unicode MS" at www.microsoft.com, most articles > regarding its installation requires that one sets MS office > or Word or XP. So for those of us who don't use them, I > want to install unicode for MS-IE 6 (on Win2K). Eventually, > I found myself at > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/prork/prda_dcm_mezi.asp > where a table indicates that there is actually a multilanguage version > of Win2K. However, the section "Unicode Support" indicates that Win2K > in *general* uses Unicode. So I'm not sure whether I have unicode, or > if that is even the reason for the special characters not showing. > > How can I find out whether my Win2K has unicode, or if I have to get a > speical multilanguage version of Win2K (not that I will, necessarily)? > If I don't have unicode, is there a way to get it? Is it really the > reason why the math symbols show up only as small boxes? > > Thanks. > > Fred > fma@doe.carleton.ca > > P.S. Posted to: > microsoft.public.win2000.general > microsoft.public.win2000.setup > alt.os.windows2000 > -- > Fred Ma > Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University > 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario > Canada, K1S 5B6
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