How it works Recent versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape display thorn and eth incorrectly. The problem is that these characters don't exist in the MacRoman encoding unless you have Icelandicized your Mac. I have written a Perl script to do this, oetv.cgi . Download a Web-compatible font and install it in your System folder. Quit Netscape and restart it so the new font will be available.
Some Web pages use their own font faces.
You'll have to override that, since those fonts won't work for Old English on the Mac. In the Preferences dialogue, under 'Fonts', select the option 'Use my fonts, overriding page-specific fonts'. How to call oetv.cgi directly You can also use the script directly. Let me know if you find any bugs. Return to Old English Pages .