******************************************************************************* * * * Tango 3.1.1 * * * * * * * * README.TXT * * * ******************************************************************************* =============================================================================== SECTION 1 - UNIQUE FEATURES OF TANGO =============================================================================== 1.1 - Dynamic change of the user interface language --------------------------------------------- You can change the language in which menus, dialog boxes and online help is displayed simply by selecting it from the Language, User Interface menu. 1.2 - Rendering of character sets --------------------------- Tango is able to render simultaneously Latin, Greek, Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, etc.) Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean and Japanese scripts. This version is able to display the following character sets under MS Windows 95: - US ASCII (ASCII) - ISO 2022-jp (Japanese) - ISO 2022-kr (Korean) - ISO 8859-1 (West European languages) - ISO 8859-2 (Central European languages) - ISO 8859-3 (Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, Turkish) - ISO 8859-4 (Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian) - ISO 8859-5 (Slavic languages) - ISO 8859-6 (asmo-708) (Standard Arabic) - ISO 8859-7 (Greek) - ISO 8859-8 (Visual Hebrew) - ISO 8859-8-i (Hebrew) - ISO 8859-9 (Turkish) - cp 437 (US DOS) - cp 737 (Greek DOS) - cp 775 (Baltic DOS) - cp 850 (DOS for West European languages) - cp 852 (DOS for Central European languages) - cp 853 (Turkish DOS) - cp 855 (Cyrillic DOS) - cp 857 (Turkish DOS) - cp 860 (Portuguese DOS) - cp 861 (Icelandic DOS) - cp 863 (French-Canadian DOS) - cp 864 (Arabic DOS) - cp 865 (North European DOS) - cp 866 (Russian DOS) - cp 869 (Greek DOS) - cp 932 (MS Japanese Windows) - cp 936 (MS Simplified Chinese Windows) - cp 950 (MS Traditional Chinese Windows) - cp 1250 (MS Windows for Central European languages) - cp 1251 (MS Russian Windows) - cp 1252 (MS Windows for West European languages) - cp 1253 (MS Greek Windows) - cp 1255 (MS Hebrew Windows) - cp 1255 visual (MS Visual Hebrew Windows) - cp 1256 (MS Arabic Windows) - cp 1257 (MS Baltic Windows) - koi-8 (Cyrillic) - koi8-r (a character set that is widely used in Russia) - Unicode (a combination of the above) - big5 (a widely-used character set for Traditional Chinese) - gb2312 (Simplified Chinese) - hz (Chinese character set used on Usenet) - KSC 5601 (Korean) - x-asmo-708-plus (Extended ASMO-708) - x-asmo-708-fr (ASMO-708 extended with Latin accented letters) - x-auto-jp (Automatic Japanese) - x-shift-jis (Japanese) - x-euc-jp (Japanese under Unix) - x-kamenicky (Czech) - macintosh (10000 Roman Macintosh) - x-mac-arabe (Arabic Macintosh) - x-mac-croate (Croatian Macintosh) - x-mac-cyrillique (10007 Cyrillic Macintosh) - x-mac-grec (10006 Greek Macintosh) - x-mac-islandais (10079 Icelandic Macintosh) - x-mac-latin-2 (10029 Central European Macintosh) - x-mac-roumain (Romanian Macintosh) - x-mac-turc (Turkish Macintosh) - x-mac-ukrainien (Ukrainian Macintosh) Notes The Lucida font allows the display of certain characters that are not supported by the fonts delivered with Tango. Some Baltic or African characters, as well as some IPA and extended Latin characters, for example, are displayed in Lucida. The Lucida font may already be present on your system. If it is not the case, you can download it by following the pointers on our Web site, where you will also find free-of-charge fonts for IPA (with a better definition and a wider variety of formats than Lucida), Vietnamese, etc. at: http://www.alis.com:8085/sextant/polices With some character sets, especially DOS and Macintosh, a small number of characters, which do not appear in any of the Windows fonts, cannot be displayed. 1.3 - Default character set --------------------- Tango makes use of the latest features in the HTTP protocol to identify the character set in which documents are encoded. Some advanced servers, such as the Alis Web server, send this information along with every URL transmitted. Unfortunately many older servers do not use this feature. To ensure the appropriate display of a document that has not been encoded with one of the above-mentioned character sets, you can use the Language, Character Sets... option to manually select the character set. In the dialog box, select the language of the document and you will get a list of associated character sets to choose from. 1.4 - Language preference for document uploads ---------------------------------------- The Language, Language Preferences... option allows you to choose the language in which you would prefer to read a document that is available in several languages. You can specify these languages in order of preference. 1.5 - "What's New?" in the user's language ------------------------------------ The "What's New?" button leads to a site containing pointers to interesting novelties of the Web in the interface language. Thus, "Quoi de neuf ?" leads to sites in French, while "What's New?" leads to English sites. 1.6 - Netscape's bookmarks -------------------- To use your Netscape bookmarks in Tango's Hotlist, copy the BOOKMARK.HTM file to your Windows directory and rename it to HOTLIST.HTM. The next time you launch Tango, your bookmarks will appear in the Hotlist window. 1.7 - Multilingual bookmarks ---------------------- The "demo" option of the Tango component installs sample HTML files in the DEMO directory. Open the HOTLIST.HTM file and follow the links to display documents in a wide variety of languages. 1.8 - Automatic completion of URLs ---------------------------- Tango stores, in a special history file, the addresses of the sites you accessed by typing their URL in the URL field. You can access any of these sites again by typing the first characters of the URL. To search for partial strings, type a few characters, then press TAB to cycle through the matching URLs. For detailed description of this feature, see "Performance Tips" in Tango's help. 1.9 - Background sound ---------------- Tango plays the background sound automatically when you access a Web page that has one specified. If you never want to play background sounds, deselect the "Load Background Automatically" (Edit menu, Preferences, Display tab). =============================================================================== SECTION 2 - IMPORTANT NOTES =============================================================================== 2.1 - To use your preferred Mail and News readers, just put their complete path in the [Main] section of the TANGO.INI file after "Mail Application=" and "News Reader Application=". 2.2 - It is not recommended to modify the BATAM.INI file. 2.3 - Some Web sites not conforming to HTML standards may not display documents as expected. 2.4 - Asian keyboards documentation ----------------------------- Depending on how you acquired and installed Tango, the English and Chinese versions of the Asian keyboards documentation are available in either compressed or Word 6.0 format: - \Help\Keyboard\Asian\English\Uwdbm4_e.exe (English compressed) - \Help\Keyboard\Asian\Chinese\Uwdbm4_c.exe (Chinese compressed) - \Help\Keyboard\Asian\English\Uwdbm4_e.doc (English in Word format) - \Help\Keyboard\Asian\Chinese\Uwdbm4_c.doc (Chinese in Word format) Copy the compressed file to the desired location on your system. Execute it, and then open it in Word 6.0. If you don't have Word, you can download a Word Viewer at http://www.microsoft.com/word/internet/viewer. The tool tips of the Asian keyboards toolbar are available in English and Chinese. 2.5 - Video files ----------- Tango requires an MCI driver to play QuickTime files. To view this type of file, you must get QuickTime for Windows 3.1 (for example, from http://quicktime.apple.com/sw/qtwin.html), even if your platform is Windows 95. To play AVI files under Windows 3.1x, you need Video for Windows. You can download it for free from Microsoft's site at: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WV1160.EXE). An AVI driver is automatically included with Windows 95. You have nothing to install in that case. 2.6 - Page setup ---------- The first time you run Tango, the right page footer is initialized with the string "Page &p of &P" in the interface language that was active at startup. This field can be edited in the Page Setup dialog (File menu). 2.7 - ALISFONT.LST ------------ During installation, the ALISFONT.LST file is copied to the Windows\System directory. We strongly recommend that you don't modify this file as it is required by Tango's Uninstall program. 2.8 - Mail attachments ---------------- To save an attachment received with a mail message, press Ctrl+click on the attachment filename. =============================================================================== SECTION 3 - LIST OF KNOWN PROBLEMS =============================================================================== 3.1 - Multilingual documents ---------------------- Some minor selection problems might appear while selecting and performing copy-paste operations in multilingual documents. 3.2 - Fonts in Greek and Russian Windows ---------------------------------- There are some consistency problems among the multilingual fonts used to render documents using international versions of Windows. 3.3 - Pragma: no-cache ---------------- Some proxy servers do not implement correctly the 'Pragma: no-cache' command, thus affecting the normal behavior of the language preference feature. 3.4 - Printing of tables ------------------ It may happen that tables do not print correctly if their width is defined in pixels. 3.5 - Not enough memory ----------------- "Out of Memory" messages may appear if your swap file is too small. Microsoft recommends a swap file size to be twice the size of the amount of RAM. 3.6 - Helpers' Configuration ---------------------- Certain Helpers require parameters to behave correctly. If you encounter problems with a Helper application, please refer to the program's documentation. Adobe's Acrobat Reader, for example, requires the %s parameter on the command line. Note If the Helper application supports long filenames, you may need to put quotes around the %s parameter ("%s"). 3.7 - Asian keyboards --------------- Toggling from one Asian keyboard to another takes approximately five seconds. Under Arabic Windows, the support of Asian keyboards is not stable. 3.8 - MAPI support ------------ MAPI support for sending and receiving e-mail is not available. 3.9 - Installation and uninstallation files ------------------------------------- The installation program creates a BIN subdirectory where it stores the files used for the incremental installation of components, as well as the files used by the Uninstall program. We strongly recommend that you do not alter the files in this directory if you ever want to customize your initial installation. 3.10- Keyboard swapping in the Address Book ------------------------------------- The Keyboard menu and icon are not available when the Address Book is displayed. To change keyboards, press the Alt and Shift Keys simultaneously. Repeat until the desired keyboard indicator appears on the status bar. No indicator means that the default Windows keyboard is in use. Note By default, Tango installs the keyboards that match the selected interface languages. You can shorten this list to the keyboards you plan to use. To do so, choose Preferences from the Edit menu, and then click on the Keyboards tab. Deselect the keyboards that you do not need to use. 3.11- Changing the input direction ---------------------------- You can easily change the input direction for typing in a text box. Simply press the Left Ctrl and Right Shift keys simultaneously to switch to Right-to-Left mode, or press the Left Ctrl and Left Shift keys to switch to Left-to-Right mode. 3.12- Deleting messages with Uninstall -------------------------------- Tango's Uninstall program does not delete the INBOX, OUTBOX and SENTBOX directories, which contain your e-mail messages. By default, the Install program creates these directories under C:\ALIS\TANGO. You must delete these directories and their contents manually if you do not want to keep these messages. 3.13- Font size in Chinese menu bar ----------------------------- Depending on your Windows settings, some characters in Tango's menu bar may not be legible when the Simplified or traditional Chinese interface is active. There is, however, an easy way to improve the display in Windows 95. Simply choose Start, Settings, Control Panel. Select Display, Appearance tab. Click on the menu in the Active Window and select a value between 10 and 14 in the Font Size list, then restart Tango. 3.14- Font size of Chinese characters ------------------------------- On Windows 3.1x platforms, some Simplified Chinese characters may be displayed in a larger point size if they are also present in the Traditional Chinese character set. 3.15- Problems printing with certain fonts ------------------------------------ If you have problems printing with certain fonts, check your printer driver settings and select the "Print TrueType as graphics" option.