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[Carol]

> bboyminn:
> 
> Netscape???? If you are using a Netscape browser it must be
> ancient. SeaMonkey from Mozilla is the new modern replacement
> for Netscape.
> 

Carol responds:
Actually, I'm most comfortable in good old Netscape 7.2 but I
sometimes use Netscape 9. I have Firefox installed but never use it.
Why switch to something unfamiliar when you're comfortable where you
are? The only time I use I.E (which I hate) is for downloads from the
Microsoft site (updates to Microsoft programs) or any
Microsofr-related site that won't work with Netscape. Seriously, I
like netscape 7.2 and am comfortable with it. I hate all the
complicated "improvements" in other browsers.

> Note, the standard Mozilla browser has been broken apart into
> two applications Firefox Browser (v2.0.0.9) and Thunderbird
> Emai (v2.0.0.6) both good programs, and both installed on
> my computer. For the record you are MUCH MUCH better off using
> Thunderbird than you are using MS-Outlook. Nearly all email
> viruses exploit weakness in the Outlook email program. 

Carol:
I can't use Thunderbird e-mail because I have web-based e-mail (MSN).
I got tech support to configure Outlook Express for my e-mail account,
but I don't think it can be done in Thunderbird or Eudora or any other
program I'm familiar with. The only other option that will work with
my account is Hotmail, which I hate but use when I'm not at home.
> 
Steve:
> Personally, I prefer the fully integrated (browser/email/chat)
> Mozilla SeaMonkey, and it is the ideal replacement for 
> Netscape. I just downloaded the current version (v1.1.6) and
> it was 13Mb. For an integrated browser that is not really 
> that large a program. 

Carol:
Hm. I don't do much chat and I'm happy with my e-mail and my browser.
If there's a free integrated e-mail program I might check it out.
> 
> > Carol:
> > So now that I have the browser set to Unicode UTF-8, will I 
> > be able to view, say, Greek or Russian characters or even 
> > Chinese in a Yahoo post or e-mail message? (Not that I could 
> > read them, but I could at least transliterate the Greek). How
> > about pronunciation symbols from online dictionaries?
> > 
> > Carol, 
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> Actually, if you look in detail at the View - Character 
> Encoding menu, you will find that Chinese, Greek, Russian,
> etc... all have their own character encodings. 
> 
> Keep in mind their is a difference between Character Encoding
> and Fonts, you can have either one without the other. 
> 
> For example, I have Korean Character Encoding available, but 
> did not have a Korean Font installed, so I couldn't view
> emails that come from Korea. WinXP does have an Eastern
> Asian group of fonts that I installed, and now I can see
> my Korean emails. It's confusing, and beyond what I've said
> I don't think I can explain the difference between 
> Character Encoding and Fonts much better than I have.
> 
> To see if you have Chinese Fonts on your computer, try
> going to the Wikipedia front page.
> 
> http://www.wikipedia.org/

Carol:
"Front page" or "font page"?

I *know* I have Chinese fonts on my computer because I edited a
manuscript that included quotations in Chinese characters. Of course,
I edited only the English portions. I had a terrible time doing the
final spell check. I think I should have set the program to ignore all
Chinese characters but I didn't know how. It took me about twelve
hours to do that bleeping spell check!
> 
> The third language down on the left side is Chinese (or it
> could be Japanese), if you see Chinese characters then you 
> have the fonts. If not Wikipedia will likely prompt you to 
> download those font. I think it actually has the fonts 
> available and will auto download them if you allow it.
> 
> For what it's worth.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn
>
Carol:

I don't want to download the fonts. I just want to be able to copy and
paste Greek or Russian characters if the need arises, or be able to
read them if I receive them in an e-mail message (which has happened
on occasion).

Carol, who has been contemplating putting some Russian Harry Potter
excerpts into Babelfish to see how it translates them--my eccentric
idea of fun, you know--only I didn't have the Russian text to do it