Thai Fonts For Thai Web Pages

[Mobi]

Can anyone advise me how to download additional Thai fonts so that I (My wife actually) can read all the web pages on Thai sites.

Some sites are readable and some are not. In one instance, we have a government site on rubber plantations in Thai, with about 10 additional web pages set up as links. All are readable, except one which comes out as the familiar gobbledygook/hieroglyphics.

Thanks for any advice.

[A_Traveller]

You may find you already have the fonts required but the browser doesn't recognise the web site settings. One way to test this is {in Firefox} View->Character Encoding ->Auto detect on and retry. Alternatively again select View->Character Encoding -> More Encodings ->SE & SW Asia -> Thai (TIS 620) or Thai(Windows 874).

HTH

Regards

[Maestro]

A Traveller is right: the problem is not with your PC but with sloppy programming of the webpage that does not display correctly.

Every webpage should have a meta tag defining the character code. Take the example of the page you are viewing right now. In your browser (eg Internet Explorer or Firefox) click on View, Source. In the sixth line, you see: content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

That charset=... should be part of the heading of every webpage. If it is not there, your browser makes best efforts to guess what the character code should be but sometimes cannot guess it correctly. That’s when you get the problem you have experienced.

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Maestro

[Mobi]

A Traveller is right: the problem is not with your PC but with sloppy programming of the webpage that does not display correctly.

Every webpage should have a meta tag defining the character code. Take the example of the page you are viewing right now. In your browser (eg Internet Explorer or Firefox) click on View, Source. In the sixth line, you see: content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

That charset=... should be part of the heading of every webpage. If it is not there, your browser makes best efforts to guess what the character code should be but sometimes cannot guess it correctly. That’s when you get the problem you have experienced.

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Maestro

Thanks Maestro.

It seems you are correct as the web site now displays all pages in a readable format from my PC's. They must have fixed it.

You learn something every day.