Some pages in OCBS use special romanized charachters for Pali and Sanskrit words. If you can't view them correctly, you may need to install a special font that is compatible with UTF-8 encoding, and contains these charachters.

Do I need to install a font?

If you see the following words correctly, you don't need to do anything:

• Saṃsāra
• Nirvāṇa
• The following 4 letters have lines above them: Ā Ū ā ī

• The following 4 letters have dots below them: Ṇ Ṭ Ḍ Ṣ

Can't see any of them correctly? 

• Check your browsers encoding. If should be automatically set to UTF-8. You can also manually change it to UTF-8:
• Explorer: View > Encoding > More > Unicode (UTF-8)
• Fireforx: View > Charachter Encoding > More Encodings > Unicode > Unicode (UTF-8)

Your browser is set to UTF-8, but charachters are still not showing correctly?

Download and install fonts:  

• You can install a freely distributed unicode font called Verajja. 
• You would need to "unzip" it with a special software that opens 7-zip files. It can be found here and here.
• More instructions and resources are in the Pali Font Resources Page.
  
• (please note that OCBS website would not work with all the fonts provided by the Pali Font Resources Page, only with Verajja)   

You can also install Arial Unicode or Arial Unicode MS which are distributed with Microsoft Office™. They are not freely distributed.

We also use a special font for titles and headings. Please download the Gandhari Unicode font.