Can't see Symbol font in Netscape? Read on...
 

Found this online today:

Using Symbol font to display Greek letters with Netscape 6+

Is this text in Greek letters: ihsou cristou? If not, read on.

Although Netscape attempts to use Adobe standards for rendering symbols, it doesn't work on most Windows-based computers. To get Netscape 6 or later to see Greek letters in the standard Symbol font you need to alter a configuration file called fontEncoding.properties.

1. Change to the directory containing this file. On my system it is located at \Program Files\Netscape\Netscape\res\fonts

2. Open fontEncoding.properties with a text editor such as Notepad.

3. Find the line containing the symbols definition. It should look like:

# Symbol font
encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding

4. Comment out the existing line by placing a '#' character at the beginning of the line.

5. Now enter

encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252

The result should look like :

# Symbol font
# encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252

6. Save the file and restart your Netscape browser.

Any tips for the Safari browser that I use for my mac? Thanks. :)

Same problem in Safari as in Netscape?

Problems with Netscape?

Get Firefox.

Can't see symbol font in Firefox, either. At least, not on my hubby's mac. The only problem I had with Netscape was the symbol font thing, which is now fixed.

I also have Mozilla, Firefox, Opera and a couple others on my system. :D

Yes. I cannot see the Greek letters. My signature looks like DFE. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Check out these resources:

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/Help6.html

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pi...nicodeMac.html

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/i...age/greek.html

http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...sX.3@.68908e3c

You can also try posting a message to the Apple>Safari board directly:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...sX.6@.3bbdb2b0

Thanks for the links, Barbara! I'll try them. Fingers crossed. :D

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I have a Macintosh and I use Netscape Communicator 7.02 for my browser. I cannot view the symbol font properly. However, I have no problem seeing the Greek letters in Internet Explorer.

I have yet to find a set of instructions on how to fix this problem on my system. The instructions PenguinTrax posts are not compatible with my OS as I do not have the files to which her posts refer. :(

I'll have to keep trying though. One of these days I'll figure it out! (Then I'll post here and help out all of my fellow Apple folks!)


.....Kelly :)

I just noticed that the original Greek letters (in the first post where it says: Is this text in Greek letters?....) the words mean "Jesus Christ" in the genitive! :D

I use a Mac and Firefox, and I just turn signatures off. It makes scanning posts a lot easier too when you don't see signatures that are 37 lines long. :D

I use firefox and I can see some greek letters but not others. For example, the text at the top is in times new roman, but Peaches-n-Cream's DFE is in symbol, while other poster's signatures are not. I tried changing the font encoding properties but that did not work.

Any other suggestions?

Well, I use firefox on my Ibook...and it doesn't pick the symbol font either. But my PC at work (with Firefox) does.

Like the signature on my name reads as QNX

Yea, I noticed that too... ;) cool.