I am preparing a spread sheet that contains data and a person's name that is in Thai. I copy the name from another source but if I copy and paste is rubbish. This is with Calibri or Arial. Which spread sheet font will accept true Thai script?

I just tried to copy and paste a Thai script word from a website into one of my spreadsheet cells (formatted as Text, Calibri, 10 point) and it worked fine!

 

I pasted into the formula bar and also straight to the cell - no difference.

Edited September 12, 20232 yr by London Lowf

TH Sarabun is used quite often.

15 hours ago, Kevin1908 said:

if I copy and paste is rubbish.

Each font file contains a limited range of characters.  If it doesn't contain the character you want to display, it'll substitute an alternative of its own choice.

 

You need to (a) install a Thai font file, and (b) select that font for the Thai text after it's pasted.

If you go here you can pick your favorite font and download it to install on your device:

https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=สวัสดี&preview.text_type=custom&subset=thai&noto.script=Thai

I installed Kanit onto the computer but how I get the spread sheet app to see Kanit in the list of available fonts? So I downloaded Kanit, extracted the compressed file and installed them. Seems I have missed something.