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>4.1. Netscape</A
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> 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.
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> 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
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or restart X server. You will probably have to delete
<TT
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<TT
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directory <TT
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> and even then you are
not guaranteed to have Netscape work right. Netscape's
handling of fonts has always been an obscure issue.
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> Links to koi8-ru, iso-8859-5 and windows-1251 cyrillic fonts for X
Window System can be found at
<A
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> In order to view Belarusian sites, you have to set up you console to
handle the encoding you need. See section <A
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>Section 2.5</A
>
for more details.
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> Add the following lines to your <TT
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if you have set up iso-8859-5 in console.
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declaration, press <B
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