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Chinese Online - How to Configure Your Browser to Detect and Display
Chinese Web Pages
To
read Chinese Online is becoming easier these days.
If
you use the latest Internet Explorer (V4.0 or later) or Netscape
Navigator (Version 4 or later), you don't have to install any special
program to read Chinese characters because both of these browsers can
support Chinese natively. The same is true with other browsers, e.g.
Firefox or Mozilla.
If
you use previous versions of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator,
you should consider upgrading your browser version. You can also
download and install Chinese
Font or download Microsoft's free
language packs and input methods for Simplified and
Traditional Chinese.
Installing
the Chinese language packs will automatically set up Internet Explorer
to recognize Chinese.
With
Netscape, you need do a little configuration:
From
Netscape's main menu, select "Edit" -> "Preferences". In the new
window, select "Appearance" and "Fonts". First select "Simplified
Chinese" for the encoding, and choose "MS Song" or "MS Hei". Select
"MingLiU" for "Traditional Chinese" encoding.
Most
of the time, you browser should automatically detect pages with Chinese
content and display them properly. But in case your browser does not do
that, you need manually adjust the setting to enable your browser to
view Chinese characters by changing character encoding.
In
Internet Explorer menu, click View to select encoding. If you don't
know what the page encoding is, you may have to experiment with the
encoding options.
The
most common character encodings are GB (for simplified), Big5( for
traditional), and UTF-8 (for both - also known as unicode).
On
Netscape, you can change from "View" and then "Character Set" on the
main menu as stated above.
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