Unicode and MS-IE 6 on Win2K

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From: Fred Ma (fma_at_doe.carleton.ca)
Date: 05/10/04

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    Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 03:34:53 -0400

    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:
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    microsoft.public.win2000.setup
    alt.os.windows2000 

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Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
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