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

[PenguinTrax]

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.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

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

[PenguinTrax]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
Any tips for the Safari browser that I use for my mac? Thanks.

Same problem in Safari as in Netscape?

[Kevin]

Problems with Netscape?

Get Firefox.

[PenguinTrax]

Originally posted by ktsnake
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.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by PenguinTrax
Same problem in Safari as in Netscape?

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

[PenguinTrax]

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

[Peaches-n-Cream]

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

[Tom Earp]

Modern Tech at its best????

[navane]

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

[preciousjeni]

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!

[Sistermadly]

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.

[bruinaphi]

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?

[_Opi_]

Originally posted by ktsnake
Problems with Netscape?

Get Firefox.

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

[LightBulb]

Originally posted by preciousjeni
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!

Yea, I noticed that too... cool.