Configure Browsers to Display Unicode Tibetan

First, you will need to install a high quality Unicode Tibetan font. Recommended choices are
- Tibetan Machine Uni from the University of Virginia
- TCRC Youtso Unicode from http://www.popdic.com/dict_tibetan.htm
- Joyig, Tashi and Uchen from http://www.dit.gov.bt/dzongkha/fonts.php
Then you can configure your Browser. Choose your browser:
Finally you should install USP10.DLL version 1.0471.4030.0 or later in the same directory (folder) as the executable for your browser. USP10.DLL provides Uniscribe support for correctly displaying Unicode Tibetan fonts. Even without USP10.DLL, the above browsers display Unicode Tibetan fonts "good enough" to be able to read the text; but Uniscribe makes the display look quite nice indeed.
To learn about Uniscribe, please see Chris Fynn and David Germano's article Instructions for using OpenType fonts for Tibetan in the MS Windows Operating System. To install USP10.DLL on your system see their article Updating Uniscribe to a Version with Tibetan support, especially Instructions for Individual Applications. You might also want to see Upgrading Uniscribe (USP10.DLL) on Windows 2000 System - it mentions that you can join Microsoft VOLT User Community and obtain a recent version of USP10.DLL for free.

Click Tools > Internet Options menu items
Click the Fonts button near the bottom of the dialog
Change the Language script drowdown to Tibetan
Find the Web page font you want to use for Tibetan and select it
Click the OK button
Click the OK button
Internet Explorer displays Tibetan Unicode correctly on Win/2000 SP4 and Win/XP SP2 if USP10.DLL is copied into the application folder.
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Click Edit > Preferences menu items
In the left column of the dialog, click the plus on Appearance
Click the Fonts line
Change the Font for drowdown to Unicode
Change the Serif drowdown to the font you want to use for Tibetan
Click the OK button
Unfortunately this sets all Unicode to use the Tibetan font. Most Tibetan Unicode fonts have only limited support for glyphs outside of Tibetan and ANSI. Tibetan Machine Uni is the best choice. These browsers displays Tibetan Unicode correctly on Win/XP SP2 if USP10.DLL is copied into the application folder.
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Click Tools > Preferences menu items
In the left column of the dialogue, click on Fonts
Click on the button for International Fonts
Click on the drop-down list box near the top of the dialogue, across from the words "Writing system"
Choose Tibetan
Choose the desired Tibetan Unicode font on the left side of the dialogue (if any are installed)
Click the OK button
Click the OK button
Opera displays Tibetan Unicode correctly on Win/XP SP2 if USP10.DLL is copied into the application folder.
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