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What's New:
May 11, 2012

New Languages & Scripts

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What's in the Student Labs (U.P.)

  1. The Phonetic Keyboards are installed in the Windows and Mac labs along with SIL Phonetics fonts.
  2. Global Writer has been installed in the Windows labs. Go to Start ยป International Language Utilities
  3. Russian transliteration keyboards are available in the Windows and Mac labs.
  4. Greek Polytonic (Ancient Greek) keyboards are available on both Windows and Macintosh.
  5. 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.
  6. Microsoft Office products can be configured to allow spell-checking in multiple languages. See the Microsoft Utilities page for more details.

Last Modified: Friday, 11-May-2012 18:36:06 EDT

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Accessibility Statement - Although the Web master has made all attempts to ensure accessibility for each page, data table and image, there may be sections which are not fully accessible. Not all browsers or screen readers equally support all foreign languages, so the priorities have been to first encode content in Unicode then ensure that it is visually correct. When Unicode compliance has not been possible, visual appearance has been chosen instead, although most content includes descriptive parallel text. Please contact ejp10@psu.edu if you have any concerns or comments to send.

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