Installation guide

Configuring Gateway Clients
Chapter 2 Setting Up the Gateway 41
Language Support for HTTP Clients
When a user accesses information in the directory from an HTTP client — through the
gateway or another HTTP-based LDAP interface — the client provides the Directory
Server with information indicating the optimal character set and collation order to use in
transmitting information to the browser.
Unicode and Latin-1 Character Sets
When the user is using Netscape Communicator, the Directory Server sends Unicode
characters.
Displaying a Non-English Alphabet
To display directory content that uses a non-English alphabet, a font capable of displaying a
non-English alphabet must be installed on the user’s system.
The Directory Server can store any Unicode character, so users of Netscape Communicator
should install a font that supports all of Unicode. Bitstream Cyberbit, which is bundled with
Communicator, supports Unicode.
Users who are not using Communicator should use a font that supports Latin-1 (or Western)
character sets. Most of the commonly used fonts (Courier, Times Roman, Helvetica) have a
Latin-1 variant.
Configuring Netscape 7.x for Preferred Language
1. Install a font that supports Unicode.
2. In the browser window, go to Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts.
3. From the Fonts For pull-down menu, select Unicode.
4. Set the appropriate font type, size, and display resolution.
5. Go to Edit > Preferences > Navigator > Languages/Content, and configure the list of
languages so that the best description of the user’s language is first, followed by other
acceptable languages.
For example, a speaker of British English who also reads Spanish might list
English/United Kingdom [en-GB] first, followed by English [en], and then Spanish
[es].