How do I read Chinese on Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer?
Both of these browsers can support Chinese without any other programs. All you need is the right font, and there are many good free fonts you can download. For Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME, the best method is to download Microsoft’s free Chinese fonts and input methods for Simplified and Traditional Chinese. For Windows 2000 and XP, Chinese support is built in and just needs to be activated. Installing these language packs will automatically set up Internet Explorer for Chinese. Netscape 4 still needs one more step. From Netscape’s main menu, select “Edit”, then “Preferences”. In the window that appears, select “Appearance” and “Fonts”. First select “Simplified Chinese” for the encoding, and choose “MS Song” or “MS Hei” for the proportional and fixed length fonts. For the “Traditional Chinese Encoding”, select “MingLiU” as the font. Selecting a larger font size might also be easier on your eyes. Now as you surf around different Chinese websites, two situations may occur. Some web pages “