From: Michael Canino
mfc3@cornell.edu
On March 21, 1996 Doug Slaymaker <dslaym@service1.uky.edu> wrote:
>Now, with Netscape 1.12 how can I read Japanese
>language materials--the newpapers, etc.? I have the addresses and can
>access them, but whenever I click on the "Japanese" buttons I get the
>garble that has exasperated so many. What am I doing wrong?
I switched to Navigator 2 a few weeks ago but have decided to stop using it
for e-mail, because it's annoyingly inferior to Eudora, particularly
insofar as editing messages. But it is very good with Japanese. Here's how
to make it work:
Under the Options menu, select General Preferences.
Go to the Languages tab, the last one.
Choose English (us) as your 1st language by highlighting it and clicking
the little arrow button.
Choose Japanese as the second--or, I don't see why you couldn't put them in
any order you want. (This assumes you have the appropriate fonts and
language kit installed, which you probably do.)
Click the OK button. . .
And that's it! From now on you can switch between English and Japanese (as
well as, presumably, any other fonts you have installed) by doing the
following:
Under Options, choose Document Encoding. Just select the language you want.
The Japanese options will still display English but the fonts are a little
garbled. You can switch into and out of languages whenever you want this
way, whether in mail, a browser, etc.
BTW I figured this out myself so there may be a more efficient way to do
it. Or, Nav 1.12 may not be capable of it. But 2.0 is a good thing to have
lying around anyway.
Best,
MC
-Are we going to push the envelope, Brain?
-No, but we might lick the edges a little.
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