Using Omniscope with Non-Western Languages

Setting your Omniscope to use a font that supports your language and data

The default font used by Omniscope is Tahoma which does not have the Unicode character set necessary to support non-western language text such as for Chinese and Japanese. However, you can easily configure Omniscope to use a font which supports non-western text and there are three ways to do this which are described below. The first two are only available from 2.6 onwards, therefore, if you are using 2.5 then you will need to specify the font using the branding options (see point 3 below).

1. Change the default font that is used whenever use Omnsicope to open files. You can do this from Settings > Application font menu.

2. Change a file specific font; changing this setting will mean only the particular file will have this font, any other files you open will use the application font setting. You can do this by from Settings > File font and choose a font you want this file to always open with. Please note that if you change the file specific font then anyone who opens this file use the font you have selected. If the font is not available then it will revert back to default (application font)

3. Specifying through branding options. Please see Rebranding Omniscope for details of changing the application font.

Font recommendations

For Japanese

The following fonts are recommended for Japanese

• Windows - MSPGothic recommended (you can also try: MS Mincho, MS Gothic, MSPMincho, MSUIGothic, Meiryo)

• Mac OS X - AquaKana, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3,W4,W6,W8, Hiragino Pro W3,W6, Osaka, Osaka Mon

For other non-western languages such as Chinese

For all other non-western languages "Arial Unicode MS" can be used. Other fonts can be used if they are available. However, "Arial Unicode MS" is known to work well and is included with Windows and Mac OS X10.5. For more information please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287247