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We apologize for the inconvenience. </p> </div> --> <h1>Support and Troubleshooting </h1> <p> <span class='author_date_hits'>Steph Smith, 2014-08-06</span></p><div class='Warning'><p class='Warning_heading'>Important Notice</p><p>This page is now out of date. For help with SIL fonts please see our <a href='https://software.sil.org/fonts/guides' target='_blank'><img src='/cms/assets/icons/offsite_link.png'> Font Help Guides</a>. For discussion and support, please go to our <a href='https://community.software.sil.org/c/silfonts' target='_blank'><img src='/cms/assets/icons/offsite_link.png'> Language Software Community</a> site.</p> </div><p>Thank you for visiting scripts.sil.org. If you are experiencing a technical problem with one of our products, please use this troubleshooting guide which is designed to help us figure out how best to address your problem. At the end of the guide there is an option to contact us directly if we have been unable to answer your question here. </p> <p>Start by choosing an option from the list below.</p> <a name='f44e3d3a'></a> <h2>My question relates to:</h2> <ul class='dListUnordered'> </ul> <p><a href='/cms/scripts/page.php%3Fid%3Duser_support_fonts%26site_id%3Dnrsi.html'>Fonts troubleshooting</a></p> <p><a href='/cms/scripts/page.php%3Fid%3Dfontfaq_display%26site_id%3Dnrsi.html'>Display issues</a></p> <p><a href='/cms/scripts/page.php%3Fid%3Duser_support_kbd_1%26site_id%3Dnrsi.html'>Keyboards troubleshooting</a></p> <p><a href='page.php%3Fid%3Dukelele%26site_id%3Dnrsi.html#support'>Ukelele support</a></p> <p><a href='/cms/scripts/page.php%3Fid%3Dofl-faq_web%26site_id%3Dnrsi.html'>The SIL Open Font License</a></p> <a name='9cfc9b74'></a> <h2>Contact Us</h2> <p>As our fonts and utilities are distributed at no cost, we are unable to provide a commercial level of personal technical support. 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