Valarie said:
I want to view certain webpages in other languages
(actually Georgian and Russian). I have downloaded the
fonts and they are in the Windows\Fonts folder. However,
the pages still don't use those fonts. They load as
gibberish. When I choose Tools/Internet Options/Fonts
those fonts aren't listed there. Should they be to make
the pages load correctly? If so, how do I get them there?
Why isn't Explorer seeing them in the Fonts folder?
It's 2 very _different_ issues, because Russian is being supported
under MS Windows since Windows 95, while Georgian support - only
in Windows 2000/XP.
For example, in Internet Explorer 5.5 on my Windows 2000 machine
I do see "Georgian" as a script in Fonts dialog, i.e. I see
"Laint based" there but when I click to open the full list, I do
see "Georgian" there...
The fonts you downloaded do not work because they are not _Unicode_
fonts - Internet Explorer works only with Unicode fonts.
So try the following:
1) Russian. No problem at all here - spend 5 munutes and it will
work and you do NOT need any downloaded fonts:
a) activate Cyrillic support under your Windows 98 (it will enable
the fonts - included into MS Windows! - to work in Internet
Explorer on Russian sites):
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/cyr9x.htm
b) learn how to browse Russian sites - some of them will just
show you Russian after you are done with (a), for example,
http://www.yandex.ru or http:/
www.anekdot.ru 
while some of them may require a manual adjustment -
View/Encoding/Cyrillic(Windows) or if it does not help -
View/Encoding/Cyrillic(KOI8-R)
2) Georgian
Not sure that you will succeed under your version of Windows -
98 is not really good for it, but you can try:
a) Regular Unicode fonts such as "Arial", "Times New Roman", etc.
contain symbols of many languages - German, Russian, Polish, etc.
but not Georgian (and not Far Eastern ones)
So you need to find a LARGE Unicode font that supports Georgian.
Please see a note about such fonts and where to get them at
the beginning of my Unicode test page:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/utf8-jap.htm
b) After you obtain such font, you need to go, in Internet Explorer,
to Tools/Options click on Fonts and select that font for
"Latin" scripts. Also, choose the same font for "Georgian"
(if you have it but just overlooked that fact) and for
"User defined"
c) Now you can try to go to a Georgian site and see if it's
readable.
If not try View/Encoding/User Defined
