I'm not a netscape user, but all the talk led me to make a "curiosity" visit to www.netscape.com.

On point made (if you dig around) is that netscape 6.1 should be able to display most of the characters that are being discussed if the "international" capabilities are installed.

If you took the default installation, you will not have the utilties for handling extended characters. And if you got your netscape from them, the installer only downloads what you ask for at the time of installation

To get the whole thing, you would need to go back to netscape.com and "reinstall," probably using the "custom installation" mode.

An additional "clinker" is that netscape provides an easy way for an ISP to give you a "tailored" netscape browser that only includes "what they think you need", so if you got netscape from your ISP - or elsewhere, you essentially don't know what you've got.

This is not "value judgement" about netscape as a browser, but perhaps someone might want to see if a different "flavor" of the installation does things differently(?).

John