Languages written in "Latin" script, but whose characters are not in the English alphabet (A-Z; a-z), may require special settings and fonts in order for browsers to display them properly.
For example, some browsers have trouble displaying transliterated Russian or Hebrew.
Browsers may also have trouble displaying characters from languages that use non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

The following browsers are the recommended browsers for viewing non-Western European languages in the UNSW catalogue.

While other browsers, such as Mozilla and Opera, will work with the UNSW catalogue, there maybe some unexpected behaviour.

The newer versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape have the added advantage of being able to display Unicode characters (UTF-8 character set) from the catalogue.

If you can't see the characters for your language correctly try a different character encoding in your web browser (for example "Western", "Unicode", "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", etc.). If you have Internet Explorer 7, select "View" and "Encoding". If you have Mozilla Firefox 2, select "View", and "Character Encoding". If you have Opera 9, select "View", and "Encoding".

All browsers running under Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP work best with the installation of the "Arial Unicode MS" font.
This font supports all 51,180 characters defined in Unicode 2.0.

Note: This font is available on the CD that comes with one of the following Microsoft products:

If you do not own, or have access to one of the Microsoft products that provide the "Arial Unicode MS" font, there are some alternatives available from the Unicode website.

All browsers running under the Macintosh OS 9.x require the installation of Language Kits to provide the fonts necessary to properly display non-Western European languages.

The Language Kit installation may require a restart of the computer to take effect.

All browsers running under Mac OS X will benefit from installing all available updates to language support. The operating system can automatically detect and install appropriate language support options from the Apple site; no installation CD is required.