display different character sets

[Thomas Wendell]

How do I get my XPpro (or rather, IE6sp1 and OE6sp1) to display different
character sets, like cyrillic, chinese, japan etc??
In W9x it was easy, as they were listed on WindowsUpdate. But not with XP??


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[Paul Gorodyansky]

"Thomas Wendell" > wrote in message >...
> How do I get my XPpro (or rather, IE6sp1 and OE6sp1) to display different
> character sets, like cyrillic, chinese, japan etc??
> In W9x it was easy, as they were listed on WindowsUpdate. But not with XP??

You need to do _two_ things:
a) enable needed Character Set in _Windows itself_, that for Display
means just to have needed *fonts*.
XP comes with pre-installed fonts for _European_ languages (including
Cyrillic) and for Japanese and Chinese you might want to use a larger
Unicode font that contains them, such as "MS Arial Unicode" - see
the top note on my test page:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/utf8-jap.htm

b) Now, having fonts, you need to know how to *tune-up* your programs
IE6 is easy to tune-up - either it will switch to Japanese or Russian
itself - if the site lets IE know what the encoding is - or
you do it manually via View/Encoding menu
Outlook Express is harder to tune-up, *if* Japanese or Russian
are used in the Subject of a message. In any case you can try to do
the same - manually change encoding to needed in the message window
Format/Encoding. See my detailed instruction for Russian in
Outlook Express - and it's the same for any other language - Japanese, etc.

It's in the "Russian in Browsers/Mail/News" section of my site.

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"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
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