This guide is divided into the following sections:

• 1. Microsoft Windows (XP, 2000, ME, 98) Users
• 2. Apple/Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 Users
• 3. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and other un*x OS Users
• 4. A Note About the Special Characters in our Entries

1. Microsoft Windows (XP, 2000, ME, 98) Users

Here are some things to do:

1. Use the Windows Update mechanism built into Internet Explorer to install support for the East Asian languages on your Windows machine. For some reason, this makes the Unicode fonts available to IE!
   • In IE select the Tools -> Windows Update menu item
   • In the window that comes up, choose to scan your system
   • Once the scan is complete, select Windows updates in the left frame of the window
   • Under the Language Support category in the lower right frame, click the 'Add' button for each of the Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) [we are not sure whether all of these are required, but they do seem to be jointly sufficient]
   • Click review and install in the upper right frame of the browser window
   • Wait for installation to complete
   • Restart web browser
2. You may instead use the Control Panel to install support for the East Asian languages on your Windows machine. Again, for some reason, this makes the Unicode fonts available to IE! Just follow the first 4 instructions on the following web page:

   Installing East Asian Language Support Under Windows XP
   Installing East Asian Language Support Under Windows Professional 2000

3. Alternatively, install any of the other web browsers mentioned below:

   Mozilla
   Firefox
   Netscape
   Opera

   Generally these browsers work without any special configuration under Windows XP and Windows 2000, but you may have to follow Step 1 above if you want to them to display special characters on a Windows ME/98 machine.

3. Apple/Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 Users

Mac OS X. The latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, and OmniWeb have all been tested successfully under Mac OS X.

Mac OS 9. Currently, we have not tested the latest versions of web browsers under Mac OS 9. (Indeed, many of the latest versions no longer run under Mac OS 9.) Please let us know if you had a problem and solved it!

3. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and other un*x OS Users

4. A Note About the Special Characters in our Entries

We have tried to format our entries in XHTML so that they display properly in a wide range of web browsers. But many of our entries use special symbols, such as logical, mathematical, and other symbols. In the past, we used "low-resolution" screen shots of these characters and displayed the resulting graphics in the entry as small images. But, recently, after being convinced that there was wide support for Unicode characters among web browsers and operating systems, we starting replacing the low-resolution graphics with widely supported font-based Unicode characters. We are slowly but surely making all of our older entries compatible with the newer XHTML standard in the process. Indeed, we have now configured our publishing system so that our entries must parse as valid XHTML (i.e., be in compliance with the international standards set by the authoritative W3C organization) before they are published on the web. (We determine validity by sending our entries, pre-publication, to <http://validator.w3.org/> and fixing any errors reported when this engine tries to determine whether our documents are valid.)

Invariably, our best intentions are sometimes defeated by the technologies involved. If your browser is not properly displaying the named character entities in an entry (e.g., logical symbols, mathematical symbols, etc.), then we hope the above suggestions prove useful.