Document Encoding / Fonts

Today, HTML document standard is ISO-8859-1. Since YUROPE is bringing news and information regarding former Yugoslavia countries, it was obvious that language (Serbian, Croatian, Slovene etc.) and fonts (Cyrillic and Latin) won't be easily supported using that standard. Fortunately, software vendors are giving more attention to internationalization and localization.

Here is few simple rules that you should follow if you want to read Yurope On-Line Magazines, Yurope Books etc.

• If you are using Microsoft Windows 95 and any browser on that platform solution is simple:
  • Install "Multilanguage Support" from CD-ROM. This will give you support to read and write documents in one of the former Yugoslavia languages.
  • In your browser:
    - select one of the fonts that support "Central European" script (e.g. Times New Roman, Arial etc.) for Latin support.
    OR
    - select one of the fonts that support "Cyrillic" script (e.g. Courier New) for Cyrillic support.
    
  • If you are using Netscape make sure that you selected appropriate script.
  • That's it!
• If you are using MAC, you are on your own.
• If you are using UNIX, you are on your own.

* See WWW Consortium note on Internationalization / Localization *

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