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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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+From the "View" menu, select the "Encoding" command and then from the sub-menu "Unicode (UTF-8)":
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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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On the dialog box select "Fonts":
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Make sure that you define an appropriate Unicode APL font as "Plain Text Font":
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+'''Step 1'''

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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