How to setup your browser in order to read special characters

For writing special characters, as polytonic Greek, Romanian, linguistic transcriptions a.s.o., I chose to use the Unicode standard. This is why, for reading them, you need:

-an Unicode font with at least Greek Extended charset. The default font I used for polytonic Greek is Palatino Linotype, but you may use Arial Unicode MS or Titus Cyberbit as well. If you have Windows 2000 or a newer version (Millenium, XP) then you already have such a font installed. The etymological dictionaries also use phonetic characters. To display them as well, you may use Titus Cyrberbit or any other font containing the Phonetical Charset.

-to set your browser's default encoding (very important!): in Internet Explorer > View menu > Encoding submenu first select the option Unicode and then the option Autoselect.

-to select which fonts to be used for displaying different languages: in Control Panel > Internet Options, clicking the  Fonts... command-button you open a dialog having a combo-box wihich lists the available alphabets (languages) and two list-boxes with the available fonts for the selected alphabet (one for proportional fonts, the other for fixed-pitch fonts). Select, one by one, the alphabets (languages) you are interested in (don't forget Greek, Latin and User Defined), and for each of them select the fonts you want to be used. You don't need to click any button after selecting a language or font. Only when you have finished setting your favorite languages (or all of them as well) you click the OK button and it's done.

Abbreviations:

Meanings of the icons found on buttons and in text:

	Banner. It sends to the Project page, where you can find descriptions of all sections.
	Show hierarchical Previous, Up and Next, following the hierarchy in the Contents file.
	Home
	Contents (Hierarchical Structure) of the Project. From here you can jump to almost every page on my site.
	Sends to the Info-Help page or to a specific help page.
	This icon shows that respective page or section is still under construction.
	These icons indicate the language of the document (English,French,Romanian,Greek and Latin)
	Followed by an R, the language-icons point to an abstract of the main text
	Indicates a document whose language does not matter (such as an index etc.)
	No document yet available
	Only an outline of the future document
	Link to an image