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Get general Information on Fonts and Input Methods:
Find new fonts? How do I use them?
Find information on creating a Web page or other document in other languages?
For information on specific languages, see our Language Resource Pages and Penn State's Teaching and Learning with Technology site:
Input accented characters using the Windows US-International keyboard
Input accented characters using the Apple keyboard
Computing with Foreign Symbols
Fonts, Accents and Multilingual Computing
Mac and Windows computers in the Language Lab (CIT 201) are equipped with word processing software enabled for all Western European languages taught at Brown as well as Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Sanskrit. Spell checking software is available for many languages. A laser printer is available for output in all languages.
Where to download and how to use fonts
If you're word-processing or are navigating the Web in a non-European language and characters aren't displaying correctly, you may need to download a font associated with the language you're using. Below are some links to font resources on the Web: Summer Institute of Linguistics , an extensive resource of fonts and word processing software for Roman and Non-Roman character sets, Mac and Windows, contemporary and ancient languages.
Yamada Font Archive , University of Oregon.
International Characters : Theory, Charts, & Tips for Mac and Windows, University of Massachusetts.
Cuneiform for TeX and LaTeX.
Old English for the Mac, Georgetown University.
Ancient Greek for a variety of platforms. Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Fonts Help page.
Icelandic for the Mac, Georgetown University.
Old Italic Fonts. Luc Devroye, School of Computer Science, McGill University.
International Phonetic Alphabet fonts for Mac and Windows.
Syriac for Windows XP.
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Help on producing multilanguage documents and Web pages (see also our Language Resource Pages):
HTML : World Wide Web Consortium.
WWW Development Resources , a robust collection, by the HTML Writers Guild .
The Unicode Consortium, developers of 16-bit encoding for the all the world's languages.
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Foreign Language TV at Brown
Three channels of international programming are available on Brown's cable TV system. Monitors with cable input are available in CIT 210.
Channel 10: Brown subscribes to SCOLA, an educational consortium that downloads from satellites and tapes for retransmission daily news broadcasts from some thirty countries. Check SCOLA's current schedule here.
Channel 11: a continuous direct satellite feed of RTN, a Russian network.
Channel 26: UNIVISIÓN, general interest Spanish language programming for North America.
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