Need Help Using Win XP Mono Unicode Font
Paul Bartlett
Unfortunately, things are not always easy for us who are not
technologically sophisticated. Some of us have not been able to figure
out how to do what we need, despite Microsoft's allegedly (but falsely)
user friendly interfaces.
I participate in a mailing list which discusses languages, some of
which are not English. Some posters use UTF-8, sometimes for the
International Phonetic Alphabet and sometimes for non-English languages
in alphabets other than Latin. I get into the Unix shell account
server for this mailing list with a telnet/SSH2 client (Absolute
Telnet) and invoke Pine. As such, Pine and the shell server are able
to pass UTF-8 characters through to the telnet/SSH2 client. The client
requires monospaced fonts.
I need (a) monospaced font(s) which has a large number of the Unicode
glyphs (is that correct term? I am not an expert) visible via UTF-8.
Recently I downloaded a ZIPfile with a set of fonts, including a set of
DejaVuSansMono ttf fonts which includes some of the Unicode characters
I can use, and which are supposedly monospaced. I used a tool called
AMP Font Viewer to install these fonts, but somehow I cannot see
whether they are properly installed or not. Windows XP does not seem
to be friendly. I remember when I used Windows 98 I could see a fonts
folder, but now I cannot (unless I am too incompetent as an ordinary
user who is not your geek kid). When I start Absolute Telnet -- or,
for that matter! the Character Map utility!! -- I cannot see these
monospaced fonts installed.
Somehow I must be missing something, but I cannot figure out what. As
I say, things are not always simple for those of us who are no longer
young and did not grow up with computers. If I am not explaining
myself well, please ask, and I will try to explain better.
Thank you.
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Paul Bartlett
David E. Ross
To view your fonts folder, go to your Task bar (on the bottom of your
window) and select [Start > Settings > Control Panel]. (I'm using the
Classic Start menu; this might be different with the default menu.) On
the Control Panel window, select the Fonts icon.
Or merely go to <C:\WINDOWS\Fonts>.
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