Mac help?

[Henry W. Pickford]

Hi Kat,
that did it! I unchecked the box, thereby not letting the website specify
fonts, and changed my default fonts from Cyrillic(Windows) to
Cyrillic(Mac). My IE crashes now on some Latin font pages, so I'll have to
toggle that website-font-override switch, but otherwise things are
definitely looking up.

thanks very much for your help.
best
hwp

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Hi,

One thing I recommend, and this is a good thing to keep in mind when
surfing
in *any* non Latin language, is to check the font setting that has to do
with letting the web site choose the fonts, or using your own as default. I
don't have IE 4.5, but in IE 5, this option is in the preferences under
"web
content", and the option says "allow page to specify fonts". Try checking
this box to the opposite of what you have, and it may show the fonts
properly. In Netscape, there are three options at the bottom of the font
section of the preferences; as with IE, try different options.

One clue that this is the problem is that none of the encodings comes up
with Russian characters. If you open a page and it looks like messed up
Cyrillic, it's probably just a problem with the encoding you're using or
your fonts. If all four encoding options come up with Latin letters, then
try my suggestion above.

Hope this helps,

Kat

> I have a G3 powerbook running OS 9, with cyrillic language kits
installed,
> use IE 4.5 for Mac, yet cannot read russian webpages in any encoding I
ring
> through using the pull-down "View" menu.
>
> I can use cyrillic in MS Word, so I know the fonts are installed and
> working correctly in that application at least.
>
> Can anyone help or recommend a website that can?

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