How to install the Computing Dictionary
All the necessary
data is available at http://www.esperanto.mv.ru/Download/KompLeks/. Structure of the
distribution
«Komputika Leksikono» is a hypertext in HTML. It is
available in a variaty of character sets:
- Unicode (WGL4 or better) — the best option,
if your browser is capable to present the required characters (e.g. under the
Pan-European version of Win32 this can do MS-IE 4.1 and Netscape 4.1)
- Latin-3 — it handles the Esperanto letters properly
- Latin-1 — this is the standard WWW charset, in which the lacking
esperantic letters are represented in cxirkaù-convention.
All the versions of the Lexicon are generated from one same source (a set
of text files in Latin-3) with the help of a C program. You can either
download a pregenerated set of HTML files in an appropriate encoding, or you
can generate them from the sources; in the latter case you can generate HTML
files in some other chasets, namely KOI-8 and ASCII.
The whole Lexicon
shall reside in two folders:
- an HTML folder, whose name is irrelevant (e.g. KL)
- the folder KL/BILDOJ, the files whereof do not depend on
charset and do not reference anything.
Latin-3 fonts
- under Unix
- one can use Latin-3 en X (W3, Netscape …):
- for Macintosh
- M. Urban has made two screen fonts
available via ELNA, Esperanto League of North America, Box 1129, El
Cerrito, CA 94530, 415 653–0998;
- under MS-DOS
- you can use programs for EGA, VGA: ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/esperanto/fonts.dir/iloj.zip and a browser like
Lynx (Linko).
- under MS-Windows
- there are
a few TrueType fonts, available at
Actually the Lexicon needs mostly those characters of Latin-3 which are also
available in Latin-1 plus the accented Esperanto letters; i.e. one can
use an ANSI character set modified so that it has the accented Esperanto
characters in the positions defined for them in Latin-1. Such fonts can be
downloaded from the FEL WWW-site. Here is a test to check the rendering of the accented
letters on your screen.
