Multilingual Browsers & Email Clients

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• How to make them multilingual?
• Browsers with Mail
  • Internet Explorer with Outlook Express
  • Mozilla
  • Netscape 6
  • Netscape Communicator
  • IBM Bidi Netscape
  • Opera
• Stand-alone Email Clients
  • TabMail
  • The Bat!
    • Magyar Bat
  • Becky!
  • LingoMAIL

How to make them multilingual?

There are two things you need to do:

1. Add multilanguage support to Windows.
2. Configure your browser and/or email client.

Browsers with Mail

  Internet Explorer 6.0 with Outlook Express 6.0

Internet Explorer is the only browser that supports both Microsoft's Embedded OpenType fonts and Bitstream's dynamic fonts.

• Configuring Internet Explorer
• Character Coding
• Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages
• Web Fonts
• Official Sites

Configuring Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer and Outlook Express will be auto-configured after you have added multilanguage support to Windows but you can manually reassociate each language script with an alternative font in Internet Explorer's Tools menu:

1. Click on Tools.
2. Click on Internet Options.
3. Click on the Fonts button.
4. Reassociate any language script with any available font and click OK.
5. Click OK again.

Character Coding

You can change the encoding of a web page by clicking on View : Encoding or by right-clicking on the page and then left-clicking on Encoding.

The encoding of an email message can be changed in Format : Encoding while you are writing it, or in View : Encoding while you are reading it.

Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages

• Right-to-left languages are fully supported.
• Microsoft's Global IMEs are fully supported.

Web Fonts

Internet Explorer is the only browser that supports both Microsoft's Embedded OpenType fonts and Bitstream's Truedoc fonts.

• Font Embedding for the Web
• Truedoc.com

Official Sites

• Internet Explorer Home Page
• Outlook Express Home Page

  Mozilla 1.0 and Netscape 6.2

"Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability."  Netscape 6 or later is the proprietary version of  Mozilla with AOL's add-ons.

Mozilla 1.0 and Netscape 7.0 are the only browsers that fully support ISO-8859-16.

• Configuring Mozilla and Netscape 6
• Character Coding
• Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages
• Official Sites

Configuring Mozilla and Netscape 6

Mozilla or Netscape 6 will be auto-configured for multilanguage support if you have the necessary fonts on your machine but you can manually reassociate encodings with fonts if you like:

1. Click on Edit.
2. Click on Preferences.
3. Pull down the Appearance menu by clicking on the right-pointing triangle to its left.
4. Click on Fonts.
5. Select an encoding and select a font for each style.
6. Click OK.

Character Coding

You can change the encoding of a web page or email message by clicking on View : Character Coding.

Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages

• You can both read and write right-to-left languages but Hebrew diacritics are misplaced.
• Microsoft's Global IMEs are fully supported.

Official Sites

• Mozilla.org
• Netscape.com

  Netscape Communicator 4.7x

Netscape Communicator's Navigator is the only browser that both supports Bitstream's dynamic fonts and allows you to read chat in Yahoo's Pacific Rim chat rooms.

• Configuring Communicator
• Character Coding
• Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages
• Web Fonts
• Official Site

Configuring Communicator

You need to manually associate Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Unicode with appropriate fonts in Navitor's Edit : Preferences menu:

1. Click on Edit.
2. Click on Preferences.
3. Pull down the Appearance menu by clicking on the box to its left.
4. Click on Fonts.
5. Select an encoding and select both a variable-width font and a fixed-width font.  (Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts are neutral to font width:  you can use the same font as both proportional and fixed-width.)
6. Click OK.

Character Coding

You can change the encoding of a web page or email message by clicking on View : Character Set.

Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages

• Right-to-left languages are not supported.
• You can use Microsoft's Global IMEs to write email messages in Communicator 4.72 or later.
• You can read chat in Yahoo's Pacific Rim chat rooms.

Web Fonts

Communicator supports Bitstream's Truedoc fonts but not Microsoft's Embedded OpenType fonts:

• Truedoc.com

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