...you need to install the appropriate character set(s). You can do this using the following steps. (This is for XP, but the method should be similar in Windows 2000, 98, or ME.)

• Go to Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options. The first page should be set up to match whatever language you use on your computer. For most of us here that's probably English, but you might be using some other language. Leave all this good stuff in place and click the second tab, "Languages".



• You can install the Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) language support by checking "Install files for East Asian languages". However, if you want to install support for Armenian, Arabic, Georgian, Hebrew, Indic, Thai and Vietnamese, you must also (or instead) check "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages".



• Click okay and acknowledge the notice it gives you. When the installation is done, reboot your computer.

NOTE: You will need to restart your computer after installing the files, so be sure you save any information and close your open programs before doing this. You can test the East Asian languages, by checking whether or not you can see the name of my homepage in English and in Chinese (Bie shu - 别墅) correctly on the title bar of my homepage. [i.e., click on my name in this post and go to my homepage; then, look at the title bar at the very top of the page. If you see Bie shu - with two boxes, the files are not installed.] For testing your Sanskrit installation...sorry, you're on your own. *lol*