Fonts, special characters and appearance of the text
Many of the texts included in Brill Online include special characters, such as accented letters and non Roman writing systems, which can sometimes appear incorrectly in your browser.
This can be resolved by ensuring that you have a font installed on your computer that includes all of the special characters.
The recommended font is BrillOnline, which can be downloaded here from the brill.nl website.
Alternatively, any font with good Unicode support will give you all the characters you need. Such fonts include Gentium, Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode.
A special note for users that browse or search New Jacoby. Some articles contain texts in Syriac characters. For Syriac, Brill advises the Unicode font, kindly supplied by Mr. Kiraz, available at http://www.bethmardutho.org/meltho.
Further information about fonts and Unicode can be found at Unicode web site or at Alan Wood's Unicode Resources.
Optimising the appearance
If you are a Windows XP user you can also improve the display on all your programs by changing the Appearance settings:
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From the Start menu, choose Settings, Control Panel
Select Display
Select the Appearance tab
Click the Effects button
Ensure that the check box next to the text "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" is checked
Select ClearType
Confirm by clicking on the OK button
Confirm by clicking on the Apply button
Further information about fonts and Unicode can be found at Unicode web site or at Alan Wood's Unicode Resources.