Technical Advise
We are eager to make buddhavacana.de accessible to as many viewers as possible, irrespective of their hardware equipment. Because of the diversity of browsers in use today — and due to the strictly private nature of buddhavacana.de — our resources in this regard, however, are limited.
Recommended Browser…
We recommend you use the “Firefox” browser. On the one hand, buddhavacana.de was most rigidly tested with this browser — on the other hand, “Firefox” is know to be one of the most secure browsers available today. For this reason it is to be preferred especially to the “Internet Explorer”.
…and fonts
In order to render Pāli words with their special characters correctly, it may be necessary for you to have a special font-set installed on your computer. To find out if this is the case, please compare the following lines:
“Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā”
If both lines match, everything seems to be alright.
If, however, the first line should look the following…
…you need to install an additional font on you computer which is capable of rendering the so-called UTF-8 character-set.
An outstanding collection of UTF-8 fonts capable of rendering all the diacritical marks used in Pāli (ā, ī, ū etc.) can be found on the pages of the London based “Association for Insight Meditation” lead by the Ven. Bhikkhu Pesala.
