Differences between revisions 4 and 10 (spanning 6 versions)

How To Configue Your Browser For Unicode

Contents

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

Volunteer needed!

Screenshots are taken from version 1.0

Firefox

Show Hide the details

-  ⇤ ← Revision 4 as of 2008-12-19 14:11:42 → 
  Size: 2535
  Editor: KaiJaeger
  Comment:
+   ← Revision 10 as of 2008-12-19 16:23:18 → ⇥
  Size: 3537
  Editor: KaiJaeger
  Comment:
-Deletions are marked like this.
+Additions are marked like this.
 Line 9:
+Volunteer needed!
-Line 10:
+Line 11:
-The screenshots are taken from version ??
+Screenshots are taken from version 1.0
 Line 50:
-}}}}
-Line 54:
+Line 53:
-The screenshots are taken from version 7
+'''Step 1'''
-Line 56:
+Line 55:
+From the "View" menu, select the "Encoding" command and then from the sub-menu "Unicode (UTF-8)":
 Line 57:
+{{attachment:ie_01.gif}}

'''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:

{{attachment:ie_02.gif}}

'''Step 3'''

On the dialog box select "Fonts":

{{attachment:ie_03.gif}}

'''Step 4'''

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

{{attachment:ie_04.gif}}

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

Screenshots are taken from version 7.0
-Line 59:
+Line 82:
-<<SeeSaw(section="mozilla", toshow="<<Show>> the details", tohide="<<Hide>>", bg="#FEE1A5", speed="Slow")>>

{{{{#!wiki seesaw/mozilla/mozilla-bg/hide
-Line 70:
+Line 89:
-{{attachment:mz_01.gif}}
+{{attachment:mz_03.gif}}
-Line 74:
+Line 93:
-{{attachment:mz_02.gif}}
+{{attachment:mz_04.gif}}
-Line 80:
+Line 99:
-{{attachment:mz_03.gif}}
+{{attachment:mz_01.gif}}
-Line 84:
+Line 103:
-{{attachment:mz_04.gif}}
+{{attachment:mz_02.gif}}
-Line 90:
+Line 109:
-}}}}
-Line 94:
+Line 111:
+'''Step 1'''

Specify the proper encoding by selecting from the "View" menu the "Encoding" command and then from the sub-menu "Unicode > UTF-8"

{{attachment:op_01.gif}}

'''Step 2'''

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

{{attachment:op_02.gif}}

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

{{attachment:op_03.gif}}

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

{{attachment:op_04.gif}}
-Line 95:
+Line 132: