Display Thai Correctly On Fedora 7

[sajal]

Just now I was showing a thai friend some website in Thai language on my Fedora 7 notebook. She said the characters are all messed up. The vowels are kinda out of place.

Now I would be needing my notebook to print documents (with some Thai words) and also intend to use my notebook to learn Thai.

Does anyone know what do i have to do to make Thai show up correctly on my notebook?

I am using Fedora 7 (I think default installation. Dont think i installed anything extra for thai script - not sure)

The screenshot above is how firefox displays Thai, gedit places the vowels about 1 line above from where it should be shown. Thanks in afvance for any pointers.

[hp8000]

Have you any thai font installed ?

I have "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai" and "/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/tis620-2.enc.gz" installed on my Ubuntu 7.10 and the display is correct in Firefox as well as Gedit.

I don't know Fedora very much but you should find some additionals fonts packages by browsing in your package manager.

[sajal]

hi there.

Thanks a lot for the help. The package manager had Thai in the languages section, but it was already installed...

On googling more i got to http://www.linuxlane.com/Fedora-7-Thai-Font I followed the steps and need to restart for the system to detect the new fonts it seems.