ราชบัณติฑยสถาน

[tgeezer]

I got frustrated looking up ไปยาล in Lexitron (not there) but was in my copy of the dictionary of the august body mentioned in my title. I was amazed to find that by simply typing ราชบัณติฑยสถาน in Google I was connecting to a great site which on first glance seems to have everything, you don't have to know the whole spelling just like a real dictionary, and a feature lacking in Lexitron as far as I can see.

[5tash]

Are you referring to the online Longdo dictionary?

Another useful online dictionary is Guru Sanook, many words in this dictionary also have sound samples.

[tgeezer]

Are you referring to the online Longdo dictionary?

Another useful online dictionary is Guru Sanook, many words in this dictionary also have sound samples.

Apprently not the long name is translated as "The Royal Institute" I have a hard copy of the book but it almost needs a lecturn to read, so this is more convenient when on-line.

[DavidHouston]

Are you referring to the online Longdo dictionary?

Another useful online dictionary is Guru Sanook, many words in this dictionary also have sound samples.

Apprently not the long name is translated as "The Royal Institute" I have a hard copy of the book but it almost needs a lecturn to read, so this is more convenient when on-line.

Do you mean: http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp ?

[tgeezer]

Are you referring to the online Longdo dictionary?

Another useful online dictionary is Guru Sanook, many words in this dictionary also have sound samples.

Apprently not the long name is translated as "The Royal Institute" I have a hard copy of the book but it almost needs a lecturn to read, so this is more convenient when on-line.

Do you mean: http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp ?

actually it is just http://www.royin.co.th then go to พจนานุกรม on what is probably called the title bar.

[Rikker]

That should be http://www.royin.go.th, and the dictionary link on that site takes you to http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp, the link David posted.

The contents of the Royal Institute Dictionary can also be found at guru.sanook.com/dictionary/, along with a few other dictionaries.

[tgeezer]

That should be http://www.royin.go.th, and the dictionary link on that site takes you to http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp, the link David posted.

The contents of the Royal Institute Dictionary can also be found at guru.sanook.com/dictionary/, along with a few other dictionaries.

Thanks everybody all veery helpful; I hope I don't forget the alphabet by using these.

[phaethon]

Can anyone tell me what font the http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp site requires?

Cheers,

K.

[Rikker]

It's not a font issue, it's an encoding issue. In your browser, try looking on the View menu for the item Character Encoding (precise names vary by browser). Select one of the ones for Thai.

The site isn't in Unicode, and there's no metadata to tell the browser which encoding to use. You can avoid having to do this every time by going into your browser settings and making Thai your default encoding (for when a webpage doesn't specify which encoding should be used). This won't affect pages in the roman alphabet.

In Thailand, most everyone's computer is already set to this default, so it slips the notice of people who should program their webpages better. Or best of all, use Unicode.

[DavidHouston]

It's not a font issue, it's an encoding issue. In your browser, try looking on the View menu for the item Character Encoding (precise names vary by browser). Select one of the ones for Thai.

The site isn't in Unicode, and there's no metadata to tell the browser which encoding to use. You can avoid having to do this every time by going into your browser settings and making Thai your default encoding (for when a webpage doesn't specify which encoding should be used). This won't affect pages in the roman alphabet.

In Thailand, most everyone's computer is already set to this default, so it slips the notice of people who should program their webpages better. Or best of all, use Unicode.

My Firefox seems to chose the correct encoding automatically. Under "tools", "options", "languages", choose "thai" then "English" as languages in order of preference. English sites come out as English; Thai as Thai, including the RID dictionary site. Rikker, is this what you are suggesting?

Thanks.

Edited November 8, 2008 by DavidHouston

[phaethon]

Thanks R and DH, I was using Google Chrome and went to options > [Minor Tweaks] >[Fonts and Languages] > [Change font and language settings] and under "Encoding" selected <Thai>.

Cheers,

K.

[Rikker]

David, your browser must have its default encoding set to Thai. Which means when a webpage doesn't tell the browser what language it's in, Thai encoding is what it defaults to.