Technical Issues
W3C validated
This site uses standard, interoperable markup and stylesheets, which improves consistently across platforms and user-agents. W3C validation is an indispensible quality check for any website and a sign of professionalism.
System requirements
This site is optimised for Safari on machines running Mac OS X (10.4 and higher), but can also be viewed with Firefox or Internet Explorer on computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and various Linux distributions. The minimum browser requirements for which this site is tested are Safari 2, Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7.
Multimedia players
Video clips are available in Flash and H.264 format. Adobe Flash is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. The H.264 format is used for videos from YouTube and the iTunes Store. Click here for a free download of the Flash Player.
Unicode compliant
To properly view this site which uses characters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the Devanagari script and the Indological transliteration of the Devanagari script, your browser must be Unicode compliant. In addition, Extended Latin, Phonetic and Devanagari Unicode fonts must be installed on your computer. To learn more on browsers and Unicode support, read Tom Gewecke and Alan Wood’s instructive pages.
Extended Latin Unicode fonts
The Roman transliteration from the Devanagari script uses characters that are included under Latin Extended-A (range: 0100-017F) and Latin Extended-B (range: 0180-024F). You can download the code chart for Latin Extended-A and Latin Extended-B from the Unicode website. The characters are present in the ANSI character set or ‘core fonts’ and in Microsoft’s WGL4 set of Pan-European characters. Mac OS X also supports Extended Latin Unicode fonts fully.
Phonetic Unicode fonts
The phonetic characters used here are included under Unicode’s IPA Extensions (Range: 0250-02AF). Click here to download the code chart from the Unicode website. The list of Windows fonts currently available for download is available on the IPA in Unicode page authored by John Wells. I recommend the Doulos SIL Unicode IPA font, which can be downloaded for free from the SIL Software Catalog page. For IPA Unicode keyboards, click here.
Nepali Unicode fonts
Devanagari characters are included under Unicode’s Devanagari (range: 0900-097F). Windows users can install the Kalimati Unicode font, which has been released thanks to the initiative of Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP). The font can be downloaded for free from the MPP’s download page either separately or as part of the Unicode font package for Windows 2000 and XP only. Mac users are adviced NOT to install the Kalimati Unicode font. Mac OS X has the built-in Devanagari MT font.