Setting font

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Mike Maxwell

(I posted this msg a couple days ago over on ie6.setup, but haven't gotten
any replies, so I thought I'd see if this is a more appropriate forum.)

I want to set a font for a particular language script, but I can't figure
out how to do it.

Specifically, for Ethiopic with Unicode encoding, I want to use the GF Zeman
Unicode font.

I go into the Internet Options dlg box, click on the Fonts button, and
choose Ethiopic for the script. The dlg box then shows empty boxes for "Web
page font" and "Plain text font", and OK and Cancel buttons. But there's no
obvious way to add a font for either of these--no insert button, nada.

This is unlike the case with, say, the "Greek Language Script", where it
lists a bunch of fonts in both boxes.

I thought possibly I had to do s.t. in the Control Panel to install Ethiopic
under the Regional and Language options, but (1) Ethiopic (and Amharic,
Tigrinya, etc.) doesn't show up here, and (2) I'm not trying to install any
input methods, just allow the display of the Ethiopic script.

How do I get Internet Explorer to allow me to set a font for Ethiopic?

This is with IE 6 (updated), WinXP Pro (sp2), and I'm a lowly User (not even
a Power User :-(). (On another XP machine where I am a Power User, there is
a single font that shows up under Ethiopic in the Internet Options dlg box.
This isn't actually the font I want to use, and I'm not sure how it got
there...)

(BTW, it's not at all clear to me what the diff is between setting a "Web
page font" and a "Plain text font". Microsoft's "training" site says:

Changing the Web page font will change pre-formatted
Web page text. Changing the Plain text font will change
any unformatted text.

I hate to be stupid, but in the context of an html page, what does
"pre-formatted" vs. "unformatted" mean? Or does "unformatted" refer to
plain text (.txt) files that you decide to look at in IE? If so, how would
IE know what language they're in??)

Mike Maxwell
 

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