U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Asian Language Help
If you only see boxes or question marks instead of the Asian characters,
you will need to enable the support for the language in your browser.
The procedure varies between Netscape and Internet Explorer, and Windows 95
and Windows 98. The instructions below are for Windows 9x only.
Users of Macintosh and other operating systems may need to follow
different procedures.
All links on this page are provided as a convenience only and do not
constitute an endorsement of any web site.
Adding Language Support for Asian Languages
Internet Explorer
You must install the Language Support add-ins for the language of
interest to view Asian languages, i.e. you must install
Chinese Language Support to view Chinese.
To add additional Internet Explorer components, your computer must be
able to browse the Internet (if you downloaded Internet Explorer from the
Internet) or you must have access to the Internet Explorer CD-ROM.
NOTE: You must have administrative privileges to install and uninstall
Internet Explorer components on Windows NT. This includes having
administrative privileges the first time you start your computer after
installing or uninstalling components.
Windows 95/NT:
Internet Explorer 4.0 and 4.01:
- Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
- On the Install/Uninstall tab, click Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 in
the list of installed programs, and then click Add/Remove.
- Click "Add a component to Internet Explorer," and then click OK.
- The Internet Explorer Component Download page is opened. When you are
prompted for Internet Explorer to check for components already
installed, click Yes.
- In the Component Download page, click to select the check boxes
for components you want to add or upgrade, and then click Next.
- Click a download site, and then click Install Now. Follow any
additional instructions on the screen.
- If you are prompted to restart your computer, do so.
Internet Explorer 5:
- Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
- On the Install/Uninstall tab, click Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 in
the list of installed programs, and then click Add/Remove.
- Click "Add a component to Internet Explorer," and then click OK.
- In the Windows Update dialog box, click the installation type you want,
and then click to select the check boxes for the components you want to
install.
NOTE: Components in bold are already installed and do not need to be
updated.
- Click Next, and then follow the instructions on your screen.
Windows 98:
- Click Start, and then click Windows Update.
- On the Microsoft Windows Update Web page, click Product Updates.
- Click Yes when you receive the following prompt:
Windows Update
This program can determine what components are installed on your
computer, and whether new components, upgrades, or enhancements are
available, specific to your computer. This check is done without
sending any information to Microsoft.
Would you like to check now?
- Click to select the check boxes for the components you want to
install, and then click Download.
- Click Start Download, and then follow the instructions on your screen.
Netscape Navigator
You must first download and install a font that supports your language.
Bitstream, Inc. produces a universal font called Cyberbit, which supports
Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Cyberbit can be obtained
from Netscape's ftp site at:
After you have installed a font that supports your language, you must configure
Netscape to use that font for your encodings. To do so:
- Launch Netscape.
- Go to the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
- Under Appearance, select Fonts.
- On the line that reads "For the encoding", change the
encoding type to the language that you wish to view. For instance, if you are
trying to use Simplified Chinese, select Simplified Chinese from the dropdown
list.
- Below the encoding type, change both the Variable and Fixed Width font
that you wish to use. For our Simplified Chinese example, select
Bitstream CyberBit from the dropdown lists (or another font if you
decided to use another font package).
The above instructions were excerpted from these references:
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