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What's New: April 14, 2008 New Basic Pages Tips for RTL Middle Eastern Scripts Windows Word and RTL Macintosh and RTL Glossary Adobe Connect Pro (Breeze) Superscript and Subscript XML (and RSS) with Unicode Firefox 2 Configuration Internet Explorer 7 Detailed Global Writer instructions Online phonetic keyboards links New Languages Listed in reverse chronological order Math Symbols Cherokee Japan: Katakana Chart, Hiragana Chart , Ainu What's in the Student Labs (U.P.) The Phonetic Keyboards are installed in the Windows and Mac labs along with SIL Phonetics fonts. Global Writer has been installed in the Windows labs. Go to Start » International Language Utilities Russian transliteration keyboards are available in the Windows and Mac labs. Greek Polytonic (Ancient Greek) keyboards are available on both Windows and Macintosh. The University Park CLC Student labs include foreign language keyboarding utilities installed for both the Windows and Macintosh platform. See the Keyboards section for details on how to activate them. Microsoft Office products can be configured to allow spell-checking in multiple languages. See the Microsoft Utilities page for more details.

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