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How To Configue Your Browser For Unicode

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How To Configue Your Browser For Unicode
1. Google Chrome
2. Firefox

When you use a Browser to send something to a server, presumably all Browsers use "Western something" as the default encoding. To take advantage of Unicode and enable others to see any APL code you might embed in your posting, you must configure your Browser correctly, otherwise it won't work.

Google Chrome

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Screenshots are taken from version 1.0

Firefox

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-=== Encoding ===
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On the following dialog box select the "Content" tab:

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Then select the "Advanced" button.

'''Step 3'''

On this dialog box:

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make sure that you define "Unicode (UTF-8)" as the "Default Character Encoding".

To make any APL characters look nice, select an appropriate APL Unicode font as "Monospace" font.

You might also want to change the size parameter - the APL385 Unicode font, for example, does not like nice in all sizes available.

That's it, you are done.
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-=== Encoding ===
+From the "View" menu, select the "Encoding" command and then from the sub-menu "Unicode (UTF-8)":
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'''Step 2'''

To make any APL characters look nice, select an appropriate APL Unicode font. For this, select from the "Tools" menu the "Internet Options" command:

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'''Step 3'''

On the dialog box select "Fonts":

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'''Step 4'''

Make sure that you define an appropriate Unicode APL font as "Plain Text Font":

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Unfortunately you cannot specify a size for any fonts in Internet Explorer.

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+To specify the encoding, select the "View" menu the "Character Encoding" command:

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and then from the sub-menu "Unicode (UTF-8)":

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'''Step 2'''

To make APL chars looking good, select from the "Edit" menu the "Preferences" command:

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First select "Fonts" in the tree on the right of the dialog. Then specify an appropriate Unicode APL font as "Monospace" font:

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You might also want to change the size parameter - the APL385 Unicode font, for example, does not like nice in all sizes available.

That's it, you are done.
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Specify the proper encoding by selecting from the "View" menu the "Encoding" command and then from the sub-menu "Unicode > UTF-8"

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'''Step 2'''

To specify an appropriate APL Unicode font, select from the "Tools" menu the "Preferences" command:

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In the upcoming dialog, click on the button to the right of "Monospace font" ash shown here:

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Now select an appropriate APL Unicode font as in this example:

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