<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Browsers</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.60"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Belarusian-HOWTO " HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Editing texts" HREF="x188.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Mailers" HREF="x291.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Belarusian-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x188.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x291.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN268" >4. Browsers</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN270" >4.1. Netscape</A ></H2 ><P > It is often a problem to correctly visualize Belarusian-specific characters with Netscape. This is due to that Netscape 4.x looks for <EM >any</EM > koi8-r font and, if it finds one, they refuse to use other fonts for displaying Cyrillic pages. </P ><P > The problem is solved by removing koi8-r fonts from everywhere - X Window System font path and font server path.Then install koi8-ru, iso-8859-5 or windows-1251 and run <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >xset fp rehash </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > or restart X server. You will probably have to delete <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >>preferences</TT > and <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >preferences.js</TT > from the Netscape home directory <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >.netscape</TT > and even then you are not guaranteed to have Netscape work right. Netscape's handling of fonts has always been an obscure issue. </P ><P > Links to koi8-ru, iso-8859-5 and windows-1251 cyrillic fonts for X Window System can be found at <A HREF="http://bellinux.sourceforge.net" TARGET="_top" >the bellinux page</A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN281" >4.2. Lynx</A ></H2 ><P > In order to view Belarusian sites, you have to set up you console to handle the encoding you need. See section <A HREF="x28.html#CONSOLE" >Section 2.5</A > for more details. </P ><P > Add the following lines to your <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >.linxrc</TT > file. <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >character_set=Cyrillic (windows-1251) preferred_language=be preferred_charset=windows-1251 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > or <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >character_set=Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5) preferred_language=be preferred_charset=iso-8859-5 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > if you have set up iso-8859-5 in console. </P ><P > If the page you are browsing does not have an explicit charset declaration, press <B CLASS="KEYCAP" >o</B > and set the document charset manually. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x188.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x291.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Editing texts</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Mailers</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >