Rachel
On my old computer, which had Windows XP, they showed up just fine. But when I reinstalled Windows XP on this computer and on the old one, neither of them show the symbols anymore. I've tried using different browsers, but it's not the browsers. Does anyone know how to change the default settings and get these symbols to show up?
Answer
To get any Unicode character to show up, you must have a font that contains them. Did you just reinstall or did you wipe your drive and then reinstall? If you did that, you may have wiped fonts that you had downloaded previously which may have had some of these characters.
See for various Unicode fonts, many of them free.
For Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, I suggest downloading and installing:
the DejaVu fonts from http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ,
the Doulos SIL and Charis SIL fonts from http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=silfontlist ,
the Andron Scriptor web fonts, Junicode fonts, and Palemonas MUFI fonts from http://www.mufi.info/fonts/ .
For symbols, there is also the excellent Symbola font from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ .
These should give you most of what you need. Also, in my experience FireFox does a far better job for font substitution than other browsers which I have tried.
To check your computer, also use http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm . Copy and paste any character that does not show up properly into the Query box. Then mouse-press âSearchâ. For all but the characters most recently added to Unicode, an information page will come up. In that page, click on âFonts that support ...â. This will give you a page that lists some fonts that support that character. In this page you can also click on âLocal Font Listâ which will bring up another list showing you every Unicode font on your system and how the character appears in that font. In many fonts the character may appear as an empty box, as a bullet, or a default symbol because the character is not defined in that font.
To get any Unicode character to show up, you must have a font that contains them. Did you just reinstall or did you wipe your drive and then reinstall? If you did that, you may have wiped fonts that you had downloaded previously which may have had some of these characters.
See for various Unicode fonts, many of them free.
For Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, I suggest downloading and installing:
the DejaVu fonts from http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ,
the Doulos SIL and Charis SIL fonts from http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=silfontlist ,
the Andron Scriptor web fonts, Junicode fonts, and Palemonas MUFI fonts from http://www.mufi.info/fonts/ .
For symbols, there is also the excellent Symbola font from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ .
These should give you most of what you need. Also, in my experience FireFox does a far better job for font substitution than other browsers which I have tried.
To check your computer, also use http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm . Copy and paste any character that does not show up properly into the Query box. Then mouse-press âSearchâ. For all but the characters most recently added to Unicode, an information page will come up. In that page, click on âFonts that support ...â. This will give you a page that lists some fonts that support that character. In this page you can also click on âLocal Font Listâ which will bring up another list showing you every Unicode font on your system and how the character appears in that font. In many fonts the character may appear as an empty box, as a bullet, or a default symbol because the character is not defined in that font.
How can i restore my VISTA computer to dell factory condition without going to repair computer?
Yianni
K so im using vista
i have a virus and i cant press f8 and go to repair my computer it wont load.
So is there another way to restore my comp to factory condition without going to repair computer?
Answer
The virus is preventing you from any Administrative tasks. (You're the owner of the computer, hence the Administrator)
I suggest you download the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and kick that virus to the curb! Then you can restore your computer.
Malwarebytes will work where McAfee, Norton, AVG, Spybot Search & Destroy, Avast, Microsoft Live One Care, Microsoft Defender, and a host of others will not!
Info on Malwarebytes,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes
Download page for the free version,
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html
The free version is all you need.
If you cannot use your computer now to download Malwarebytes, use the computer you're on, and burn Malwarebytes to a CD disk. Then load the disk in your computer with the problem.
The virus is preventing you from any Administrative tasks. (You're the owner of the computer, hence the Administrator)
I suggest you download the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and kick that virus to the curb! Then you can restore your computer.
Malwarebytes will work where McAfee, Norton, AVG, Spybot Search & Destroy, Avast, Microsoft Live One Care, Microsoft Defender, and a host of others will not!
Info on Malwarebytes,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes
Download page for the free version,
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html
The free version is all you need.
If you cannot use your computer now to download Malwarebytes, use the computer you're on, and burn Malwarebytes to a CD disk. Then load the disk in your computer with the problem.
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