Thai Fonts Display Problem - Getting Boxes Instead Of Tone Marks

[aanon]

Hi all,

I hate to ask this sort of question but I'm stuck and couldn't find anything by searching. I have recently started using the Vista (basic) operating system, and since doing so I've had a problem with viewing Thai fonts in Word. I get little boxes superimposed on the words instead of tone marks and other marks above words (i believe they're called supercritical marks, right?).

I've tried a variety of fonts (Angsana, Leelawadee, Kodchiang etc) with the same result. Thai fonts display perfectly in WordPad, Internet Explorer, Firefox and so on.

Can anyone help save my sanity?

Many thanks, aanon

[meadish_sweetball]

Sorry I can't help as I haven't left XP yet, but I am sure somebody else will be able to.

In the meantime, which version of Word are you using?

[aanon]

Sorry I can't help as I haven't left XP yet, but I am sure somebody else will be able to.

In the meantime, which version of Word are you using?

it's Microsoft Word 2002 (that's what i get from looking at 'About Microsoft Word' in the Help menu (or, to be exact, the Thai equivalent, since it's the Thai version).

i used this same version (from the Office XP suite) previously under XP with no issues.

all the best.

[Richard W]

it's Microsoft Word 2002 (that's what i get from looking at 'About Microsoft Word' in the Help menu (or, to be exact, the Thai equivalent, since it's the Thai version).

As you may well have found from the net, many but not all users have problems using Word 2002 on Vista. Microsoft reportedly does not 'support' the combination. www.upenn.edu/computing/provider/product/specs/word.html states

Word 2003 functions correctly in the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista. Word 2002 does not function correctly in Windows Vista and Microsoft has confirmed that they will not support Word 2002 under Windows Vista.

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What level of scripts do you have supported? Complex scripts? East Asian scripts? It seems that some problems with the combination are fixed by disabling East Asian scripts (basically Chinese, Japanese and Korean). It's a long shot, but I can imagine that the combination of Word 2002 and Vista works so long as you stick to ASCII. Does the problem afflict the Word menus?

[aanon]

it's Microsoft Word 2002 (that's what i get from looking at 'About Microsoft Word' in the Help menu (or, to be exact, the Thai equivalent, since it's the Thai version).

As you may well have found from the net, many but not all users have problems using Word 2002 on Vista. Microsoft reportedly does not 'support' the combination. www.upenn.edu/computing/provider/product/specs/word.html states

Word 2003 functions correctly in the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista. Word 2002 does not function correctly in Windows Vista and Microsoft has confirmed that they will not support Word 2002 under Windows Vista.

.

What level of scripts do you have supported? Complex scripts? East Asian scripts? It seems that some problems with the combination are fixed by disabling East Asian scripts (basically Chinese, Japanese and Korean). It's a long shot, but I can imagine that the combination of Word 2002 and Vista works so long as you stick to ASCII. Does the problem afflict the Word menus?

richard, thank you for all your advice here. i hadn't found that info about word 2002 and vista previously. in answer to your question, the Word menus display thai perfectly, which seems promising. however, to be honest, i'm not sure how to go about following your advice of sticking to ASCII.

with XP, i was familiar with the language options, of which 'install files for complex script' and 'install files for east asian languages' were two. however, these options don't appear in vista. the 'regional and language options' window only includes input languages and time/date format etc.

so, could i ask you to expand a little more on how to 'stick to ASCII'? many thanks in advance.

all the best.

[Richard W]

so, could i ask you to expand a little more on how to 'stick to ASCII'? many thanks in advance.

I wasn't advising it - if you stick to ASCII, you can't write Thai.

However, there might conceivably be some advantage in sticking to 'ANSI' as Windows calls it, your default codepage. What is your computer's default codepage? I assume Vista has such a concept - I haven't tried Vista. XP works well enough for me so long as I can purloin a good enough Uniscribe DLL and stick to 16-bit scripts - browser and notepad support for cuneiform sucks.

(Mind you, I still haven't worked out how to the XP command window to work in Thai.)