MediaGlyphs Project - Note on browsers

Note on browsers

This page provides information for having the best and less troublesome vision of MG pages.
We hope these tips can solve any problem you may encounter with the vision of our website. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

General tips:

If your browser doesn't automatically do so, change the encoding scheme to Unicode (UTF8).
You can define your preferred/known languages in your browser (test your settings now) and this will allow:
- the automatic selection of web pages in your first language, if they exist
- the colour-enhancement of your known languages in the explanation pages, making it easier to find what you want in entries like this
- tooltips for glyphs in your preferred (first) language (JavaScript should be enabled in your browser for tooltips to work)
To define your languages under..
- Internet Explorer: Tools menu, Internet options item, General tab, Languages button, Add... button
- Netscape: Edit menu, Preferences... item, Navigator submenu, Languages item, Add... button
- Opera: File menu, Preferences item, Languages tab, Add... button
- Firefox: Tools menu, Options item, General tab, Languages Choose... button
Note that you can also add user defined codes, hence directly specifying MG language codes for your specific languages (which might not be covered by the ISO convention and hence not in the browser's list; for example, Cantonese is not included: simply add "yue.t" as user specified language).
You can find MG language codes in our language names page or clicking on the names of languages in the explanation pages. For example, the code for English is 'eng'.
You probably need some comprehensive unicode fonts to appreciate the beauty and diversity of the world writing systems. Some example ones:
- Code 2000 (download) by James Kass, 3.5 Mb
- Bitstream Cyberbit, 12.7 MB (download)
- Lucida Sans Unicode, 316 KB (download) [note: lacks CJK ideograms]
Otherwise, we suggest you to try the very comprehensive site Alan Wood's Unicode Resources for more about Unicode fonts and browsers. Or check the very good Unicode support page by James Kass. Another great website with links to unicode fonts is Gallery of Unicode Fonts.

Table of tested browsers with problems, if any, and solutions:

Operative system	Browser	Problems	Solutions
Linux & Windows 98 SE	Opera 5 & 6.0	Missing support for different encoding schemes	Use Opera 6.02 or successive version
Linux, Windows 98 & Windows XP	Opera 7.02-
Linux & Windows 98 SE	Netscape 4.77
Linux	Lynx	Text browser	Define an external image viewer to see the glyphs. Also, using xterm in unicode mode (xterm -u8 -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1') and changing to UTF8 encoding in lynx' options will allow the display of all translations in explanation pages
Windows 98 SE	Internet Explorer 5-
Windows XP	Internet Explorer 6
Windows CE (pocket pc 2002)	Pocket Internet Explorer	No support for animated gifs, they appear static. No tooltips.	Maybe a future version of the browser will solve these issues
Linux	Konqueror 2.2.2	Unicode not properly supported	Upgrade to Konqueror 3
Linux	Konqueror 3
Windows 98 SE	Netscape 6.2	UTF-8 selected but it gets changed	Disable auto-detection (from View menu, Character Coding, Auto-Detect, Off) or upgrade to Netscape 7.02.
Windows XP	Netscape 7.02
Mac OS X 10.3.8	Safari 1.2.4
Linux & Windows 98 SE	Firefox 1.0
Windows XP	Firefox 2.0*
Windows 98 SE	Mozilla 1.6

If you have more problems and solutions for these or for other browsers you use, please send them

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Last modified: Tue Apr 22 05:02:59 PDT 2008 First appearance: Tue May 7 18:16:45 BST 2002