Display of Central European characters

In general, you will have to

1. get hold of an appropriate font
2. install the font properly in your system
3. customize your Web browser
4. (optionally) indicate the document encoding if this is not already part of the HTML code of the files you are viewing (not necessary for the Oslo Corpus of Bosnian Texts)

Here, we have compiled some information that allows you to see documents encoded in ISO-Latin2 (or ISO-8859-2) for Netscape versions higher or equal to 2.0. This corresponds to the environment available at the University of Oslo - and we were greatly helped in this task by Kjetil Rå Hauge. We have no resources to test thoroughly other browsers, or even to assess the various options available when there was more than one font. We have thus simply tested one way of doing it and document it here.

• Windows 95
• Unix with X
• Windows 3.1x
• Mac OS

Information concerning other browsers will be gratefully acknowledged and added to this page. More general information about fonts can be found e.g. in http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~czyborra/charsets/ and pointers from there.

Preparing your computer to handle Latin 2 fonts

Windows 95

support for 
      more languages, install

Having done this, you have to customize your Web browser, indicating which fonts it should use when dealing with documents in ISO-8859-2 (or Central European). In Netscape Navigator 3.01, under the menu "Options", choose "General Preferences" and there under "Fonts", select "Latin2" and click on "Choose Font". There you may select the one of your choice, provided that you choose "Central European" under "Script".

Note: If this is not an option (nor Central European, in case you have an English version of Windows'95) this means that you did not succeed in the previous step, namely, installing the "Support for other languages".

Unix

Then, in Netscape Navigator 3.01, under "Options", choose "General Preferences", and there "Fonts". Under "For the encoding" choose Central European (Latin-2) - note that if the previous step had failed you would not have been able to select this encoding...

Windows 3.1x

Having done this, you have to customize your Web browser, indicating which fonts it should use when dealing with documents in ISO-8859-2 (or Central European). A possible option, if you got the fonts from the site mentioned above, is "Times NR CE / Latin 2 (True Type)".

Mac OS

To get some fonts that work with Latin2, point your browser to http://www.indigo.ie/egt/everson-mono.html, choose the link "Everson Mono for Macintosh", and download the font called Everson Mono CE. (Note that this font is shareware!).

Then, you have to customize your Web browser, indicating which fonts it should use when dealing with documents in Central European. In Netscape, under "Options", choose "General Preferences", and there "Fonts". For the Encoding "Central European" choose "Everson Mono CE".

Warning! Unfortunately the fonts we suggest for the Mac do not work for d with crossbar, and you'll see simply a plain d in your screen. You may either use the all-ASCII option, or simply be aware of this fact when interpreting the results of your queries. In any way, when querying the system, if you use djj, you'll only get d-with-crossbar cases, even though in the display they look as d's.
Simply put, this is a problem of the display, not of the corpus or of the interface.

Viewing Latin 2 files

Then you can point your browser to a document encoded in ISO-8859-2 (or Latin2) and it will display the right characters.

(Note that the HTML file must have in it the information that it is in that character set. If not, you may have to manually select "Document Encoding" under "Options" in Netscape while you are looking at the document, and choose precisely "Central European (ISO-8859-2)".)