[multikulti-tech] help

[Dan McQuillan]

Hi Murid

>I got the cod file from this website: 
>(http://www.geocities.com/ramin_amirnovin/farsipad.htm) This 
>is a program that types in a different language.  

This purpose of this list is to help people who are having technical problems viewing the content on the Multikulti site http://www.multikulti.org.uk/. 

>The cod file 
>is actually a keyboard layout for the program, but in the 
>website, it tells you that all you have to do to install the 
>cod is go to start,settings, control panel, fonts, file, 
>install new font, then highlite it, then click install.  It 
>doesn't show up, and when I change it to a .ttf file, it says 
>it's not valid.

I had a look at the farsipad site. I don't think the COD files are keyboard files - they seem to be files to translate between one form of font encoding and another. Therefore they will only work if you also have the font file: so for a font called Farsi_1, you will need the COD file for Farsi_1 *and* the Farsi_1.ttf file. 

However, I would not recommend using any non-standard fonts in any case. The Multikulti site uses Unicode fonts where Unicode is a global standard for font encoding. 

Best wishes
dan mcquillan
[Dr. Dan McQuillan / Multikulti project / 020 7377 1226 / www.multikulti.org.uk ]