The quick answer would be http://www.unicode.org. I've not looked for a
means to expand the code so I don't know if it is there or not.

Armenian is actually listed under languages in IE 6 (tool | internet
options, general tab at the bottom. I haven't tried adding it to see if it
works. But it shouldn't matter in this case -- the pages being served aren't
actually in Armenian if I read Peter's response correctly. You might add the
Armenian and find some Armenian language sites via Goggle. 

Now this is the really obscure stuff that makes it all fun in a slightly
psychotic way!

andy

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From: Amanda Birmingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:47 PM
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Andy,

Great post--thanks very much for clearing up the confusion between fonts vs 
unicode subsets ... this must be the explanation for why the page works for 
Peter but not for some of the rest of us.

For good measure, do you happen to know anything about how one gets a new 
subset of the unicode characters (like, say, the Armenian ones) to be 
recognized by the machine?  I assume these are the "language packs" that 
Win 2k sometimes tells me I need to view various sites, but *it* seems to 
want me to get them from a cd or something (which of course I don't have :).

Do you know of any online source for downloading support for additional 
character sets?  If there was one, then presumably a web site author who 
wanted to post things in Armenian could direct users who saw gibberish to 
go download a new language pack if they wanted to see things correctly?

Amanda

>Very interesting discussion to come upon with a 15 hour lag. There's some
>confusion of terminology here. Fonts are particular ways to display
>characters contained in a character set. Arial, Helvetica verdana are fonts
>(these are what Peter uses in his code) used to display characters
contained
>in the utf-8 unicode set (which Peter also uses in his code). There is no
>Armenian font, but there is an Armenian character set contained in unicode.


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