Thai Font Overwrites

[phibunmike]

Hi,

When I go to various websites in Thai, some of them display ok, but some have occasional text overwrites - characters written on top of each other. See this example from Google:

It doesn't seem to happen in any Roman fonts. Anyone know what the problem is, or how I can fix it ?

Thanks,

Mike

[Beachcomber]

Hi

Don’t know if this will help. Have you tried – View – Encoding – Auto Select or/and Thai - Western European Windows (or ISO) or any of the others?

This usually sorts out gibberish on my screen.

Sometimes just reloading the page does the trick.

Edited April 22, 2006 by Beachcomber

[phibunmike]

Hi

Don’t know if this will help. Have you tried – View – Encoding – Auto Select or/and Thai - Western European Windows (or ISO) or any of the others?

This usually sorts out gibberish on my screen.

Sometimes just reloading the page does the trick.

Thanks, I have tried adding other Thai fonts into the "Auto Detect" list - but it didn't change anything. Reloading doesn't help, as the errors are always in the same places, one day to the next.

I have enlarged the text on the Google page, and I can see that the problem is in the font itself - as though there is a character that is missing from the font:

(You will need to enlarge this to see what I mean)

The text detects as "Unicode (UTF-8)". If I select Thai fonts manually, it is just garbage...

[Beachcomber]

Sorry my idea didn’t help

Will watch this thread as I would be interested to know the answer should someone come up with one.

Beachcomber