Thai Language Software--cannot Display Font Properly

[my benny rai]

I have gone through the whole Control Panel to Change Regional Settings and now have a little EN or TH box in the bottom right corner of my screen. I am running a legit copy of Windows XP SP2 from North America. I have read the excellent pinned threads in the Thai Language section and I have downloaded MS fonts, but...

PROBLEM IS

I bought a Thai Dictionary (name listed in thread title) that has an interface that is supposed to be Thai put looks something like "AiiIxXC#%*iOOud". (It says I need XP Thai Support--is that what I've got AFTER changing the language settings and adding fonts?)

I also cannot display Thai fonts on some webpages and all Thai MP3 files.

Am I missing some holy grail of Thai fonts? And how do I load Thai fonts off of other sites?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[meadish_sweetball]

Hi again benny

As for the Thai dictionary, I cannot promise it will work, but I would uninstall it and reinstall it after having installed Thai language support in Windows. That's the best I can think of right now - individual programs can have differing requirements. Unfortunately it is also possible the program simply does not work unless you have a Thai version of Windows installed, because it was developed for Thais and not for foreigners.

When it comes to webpages where you cannot display Thai text, this you should be able to handle in your web browser. When using Firefox and encountering a web page where the Thai shows incorrectly, go to View / Character Encoding / More Encodings / SE & SW Asian and try the different options for Thai you will find there to see if one of them works. The most common encoding in my experience is Thai Windows-874.

In Internet Explorer... it used to work in a similar fashion to Firefox (i.e. View / Encoding / pick encoding from a list), but I have not used the newest version, so they may have changed this.