Abstract: An Internet-based font server (10) for access by an Internet browser (20) to provide the browser (20) with representations of text elements, such as ideographic characters, in one of a plurality of languages for browsing a web page (30) in that language over the Internet. The server (10) comprises an associated website for access by the browser (20), a database of ideographic character fonts of different sizes and styles, first means (31) for downloading the web page (30) to the server (10), and a parser program (40). The parser program (40) is arranged to identify text codes of the ideographic characters in the web page (30) and replace the identified text codes with respective URL (Uniform Resource Locator) addresses, thereby converting the text of the web page (30) into said URL addresses.