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

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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.