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This page describes the basics of Unicode for foreign language and what kinds of utilities are needed for foreign language support.

By Language

View detailed instructions for multiple languages and math symbols

Typing in Other Languages

• Accent Codes
• Windows
• Macintosh
• iPhone

Install Fonts

Windows | Macintosh

Software Tips

• ANGEL 7
• Adobe Connect
• Blogs
• E-Mail
• RTL (Arabic/Hebrew) in Word for Windows
• RTL (Arabic/Hebrew) Typing in Mac

HTML Tags

• HTML Accent Codes
• HTML Encoding Meta Tag
• HTML Language Tag
• Encoding Tutorial for Web Developers

Web Editors

• Dreamweaver
• Microsoft Expression Web

What's New:
December 19, 2012

New Languages & Scripts

Listed in reverse chronological order

• Using Blogging Platforms at Penn State
• Inofrmation on iPhone foreign language input has been added.
• The E-mail page has been updated to include UCS and Webmail
• Information on N'ko script added
• Mac OS X Lion information added for select South Asian scripts (particularly the South Brahmic scripts)
• Updated information for
  • Internet Explorer 9
  • Firefox on Windows 7
  • Google Chrome
    

RSS Newsfeeds

• TLT Computing with Accents
• Computing with Accents News Archive
• W3C Internationalization FAQ's
• Got Unicode? Blog

What's in the Student Labs (U.P.)

1. The Phonetic Keyboards are installed in the Windows and Mac labs along with SIL Phonetics fonts.
2. Russian transliteration keyboards are available in the Windows and Mac labs.
3. Greek Polytonic (Ancient Greek) keyboards are available on both Windows and Macintosh.
4. The University Park CLC Student labs include foreign language keyboarding utilities installed for both the Windows and Macintosh platform. See the Keyboards section for details on how to activate them.
5. Microsoft Office products can be configured to allow spell-checking in multiple languages. See the Microsoft Utilities page for more details.