Page Text: Once you have reached the above page, all you need to do is search for ‘cmsy10.ttf’ and download/install that font.
Microsoft Windows 7 – 10; Mac OS X 10.6 – 10.15
At this time, there are no known issues when displaying our webpages in Windows 7 – 10, or on any of the following Mac systems: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), or macOS 10.12 (Sierra), macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), macOS 10.14 (Mojave), or macOS 10.15 (Catalina).
Microsoft Windows/Vista and Mac OS X/Leopard (10.5)
Windows/Vista. Though we have had limited opportunities to test our pages on Vista machines, the best results are obtained when using Firefox as the browser using its default font. We've had reports that Internet Explorer may lack certain special Unicode characters that we use. If you can't install Firefox, then try: Start → Settings → Control Panel; switch to the Classic View of the Control Panel; select Regional and Language → Languages and then check both “Install files for complex script” and “Install files for East Asian languages”. Then Restart your computer so the new fonts will get loaded.
Mac OS X/Leopard (10.5). The versions of Safari, Firefox, Camino, Mozilla, and OmniWeb that run under Mac OS X 10.5 have all been tested successfully. However, for the best results, you should set the font to Times or Lucida Grande, since these fonts seems to have the widest support for Unicode characters in Mac OS X. We've also tested Opera with pretty good success. See also Alan Wood's Unicode Resources: Unicode fonts for Macintosh OS X computers .
Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and other Unix OSes
Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all provide reasonably good support for the special characters used in SEP entries, assuming you use the default font. However, we haven't test our pages with these systems as widely as we have the Windows and Mac platforms. So we cannot supply more specific information about what works best, i.e., what browser/font combination supports the widest range of Unicode characters.
Microsoft Windows XP, NT, 2000, ME, and 98
Firefox gives the best results. If you are using IE 7 under Windows XP, or IE 6 under Windows XP, 2000, ME or 98, try setting your font to Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial, Times, Times New Roman or Courier New fonts, all of which are supposed to support the Unicode named character entities we use in our documents. It is important to remember that not all of these fonts will support all the Unicode characters, so you may need to try different fonts for entries which have obscure characters.
Some things to do if special characters aren't displayed:
Some users need only use the Windows Update mechanism built into Internet Explorer to install support for the East Asian languages on your Windows machine. For some reason, this makes the Unicode fonts available to IE!
In IE select the Tools → Windows Update menu item
In the window that comes up, choose to scan your system
If the scan completes and shows new updates to install, select Windows updates in the left frame of the window; if it says no new updates are available, then try Option 2 below
Under the Language Support category in the lower right frame, click the 'Add' button for each of the Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) [we are not sure whether all of these are required, but they do seem to be jointly sufficient]
Click review and install in the upper right frame of the browser window
Wait for installation to complete
Restart web browser
If, after scanning your system, IE reports that there are no new updates available, you may instead have to use the Control Panel to install support for the East Asian languages on your Windows machine. Again, for some reason, this makes the Unicode fonts available to IE! Just follow the first 4 instructions on the following web page: