I Can't Cut And Paste Thai Words Into The Online Dictionaries!

[my benny rai]

I am not a computer whiz and I don't know how to switch my keyboard to type in Thai when I try to imput Thai words into the online Thai dictionaries. Also, when I cut and past my Thai words in openoffice or WordPad, they come out in a bizarre mix of English and numbers. I am using Windows XP SP 2.

Obviously I am doing something wrong or probably just need to click a few icons or something.

ALSO, I cannot use all of the fonts in WordPad because most of them only come out in English. I can only use a few of the basic ones.

Please help me. Any help you can give is much appreciated.

: )

[Mid]

sounds like you need to load thai fonts onto your computor

[my benny rai]

sounds like you need to load thai fonts onto your computor

I am pretty sure I did that already because now I have a few Thai fonts when before I did not have any. Plus I can now view Thai websites properly now after adjusting some things on WINXP and downloading a few SEAfonts.

Is there any way I can switch from English to Thai on my keyboard when I am typing on internet sites? I can only type in Thai if I choose a font in openoffice or some of the Thai fonts in WordPad. (Some Thai fonts that are listed in WordPad only come out in English).

[Mid]

control panel > region and language options

[my benny rai]

Mid, I have already done that months ago.

[meadish_sweetball]

It still sounds like you have not installed Thai support into Windows, and that is done where Mid indicates. Perhaps you forgot to complete all the required steps?

Is there a blue square with a white two-letter combination (e.g. EN for English, TH for Thai) at the bottom of your screen that allows you to switch between different language input? If not, chances are I am right.

This thread is hopefully helpful:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=27246

Dont know about Thai support in Open Office, sorry.

[boxig]

Try to see if you can paste the Thai script to a simple TXT file.

(If you can, and you want to save it, save it as unicode)

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[my benny rai]

ขอบคุณ Got it now! Thank you all for your help.