Thai Font Capability With Vista

[BKKGuitar]

Has anyone recently installed Thai fonts on a PC running Vista or know anything about Windows Vista language packs (not available in Thai font as of 1/7/2007)?

I want to be able to type in (and read) Thai and English using a word processor, email, and other applications. Vista is my operating system.

Thanks!

[Oswulf]

The language packs are not what you want. They change the user interface language (things such as dialog boxes, menus, etc.). See http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...ab5ecc1033.mspx for more about language packs.

What you want to do is change the input language. See http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...30889f1033.mspx for instructions on doing this.

[BKKGuitar]

The language packs are not what you want. They change the user interface language (things such as dialog boxes, menus, etc.). See http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...ab5ecc1033.mspx for more about language packs.

What you want to do is change the input language. See http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...30889f1033.mspx for instructions on doing this.

Thanks for your reply. I'll read those links. My windows/fonts folder has several Thai fonts already included with Vista, including the one I want ("Angsana New"), but when you open the Thai font, the example of the font is in an English language font... I'm on an XP computer at the moment, have to wait to get back on my normal Vista one. Thanks again!

[Oswulf]

Thanks for your reply. I'll read those links. My windows/fonts folder has several Thai fonts already included with Vista, including the one I want ("Angsana New"), but when you open the Thai font, the example of the font is in an English language font... I'm on an XP computer at the moment, have to wait to get back on my normal Vista one. Thanks again!

To see the Thai characters of your Thai font use Charmap. That is: click Start -> Run. Enter "charmap" (without the quotes) in the open box, then click OK. Select your chosen font and scroll down to see the Thai characters.