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[Dean Hansen]

Hi Glenn,
For some reason, I am unable to type Thai characters directly into the web input boxes on this website (such as the search box and the message board boxes). I can paste Thai characters into these boxes just fine, however--> แก้ปัญหานี้ใด้ไหมครับ.

I am running WinXP Pro, and have all the Thai options enabled in both Windows and IE, and am able to type Thai characters in Word, Notepad, and various other programs. Can you help?!

Thanks!
Dean

[Glenn Slayden]

That certainly is strange; I've never heard of such a problem. Are you switching to Thai input by using the 'tilde' key or selecting Thai in the 'system tray' area?

Glenn

[goody]

I have the same problem. I am using XP aswell. When I chose thai in the language bar I can type in notepad and word, but not this website. The keyboard types gibberish.
FD3015#" @IH2*A-47
The above is what I got when I selected Thai on the language bar and typed every letter from Q to M.
Coding issue?

[Glenn Slayden]

I still can't imagine what this is. This site is not doing anything out of the ordinary. Are you using Firefox as your browser, or Internet Explorer? Are you able to type Thai into, say, the Google main front search page?

Did this behavior change on this site before early March 2005, when I switched all the server-side script over to C# .NET?

Thanks for helping me figure this out.

Glenn

[Dean]

Glenn,
I get the same output as 'goody' when typing in the text boxes. It's like the keyboard is mapped completely differently when in a web text input box (different than U.S. standard or Thai kedmanee).

To answer your question, this doesn't just happen at this site, it also happens on every other web page where I enter text into a text input box. I wonder if there's a setting in IE that's causing this behavior?

[goody]

I only noticed now that it is the same for most websites (including google), so realised that it was an Exlporer issue.

If you open the language bar menu, go to 'options', then 'settings' it will bring up a window (text services and language input)
Click the advanced tab and select the 'compatibility configuration' box, and click 'Apply'.
It will ask you to restart the computer. After this you will be all set

[Dean]

Goody,
Did this actually work for you? because I am still not able to type Thai into the web text boxes! When I checked my language bar settings (as you advised), the "compatibility configuration" box was already checked, so on a whim I unchecked it and restarted--but still had the problem. So then I checked the box and restarted again, still no joy. Any other thoughts? I'm sure it's a setting somewhere on my computer, I'm just not sure where/what it is...

Thanks!
Dean

[Gwindor]

BTW, Glenn, I have no trouble typing Thai into the lookup box in Firefox, though firefox has some other odd problems...

[Richard Wordingham]

The problem's been around for many months, if not well over a year. What's happening is that the keypresses are being correctly interpreted as being on a Kedmanee keyboard, but only the low byte is being displayed. For example, the key labelled 'q' isๆ U 0E46, and the Unicode code for 'F' is U 0046 (Unicode is an expansion of Latin-1, i.e. ISO-8859-1). Thus pressing 'q' yields 'F'in the display, and so on.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how one gets the high byte to display. Fortunately, I have never had the problem. It was raised at www.thailand-uk.com, and unfortunately no solution was forthcoming there. Unfortunately I can't find that thread now to find out what happened in the end.

Incidentally, I'm now using Firefox quite happily at this site, apart from the arbitrary translation feature. I haven't retested it with Firefox 1.02 yet.

Richard.

[goody]

Clicking that box worked for me! Dean, I dropped you a private message about sending you screen shots of various language settings.
Maybe it has something to do with the code page conversion table in the advanced tab of the Regional and language settings folder in the control panel.
I have both Thai boxes clicked there too.

I do still have the problem with Lexitron Thai dictionary where everything is ????? unless I change the 'Language for non unicode programs' to Thai (which changes date and time etc to Thai)
If anyone has a fix for that it would be great

My work computer has no problem with the Lexitron Dictionary, I haven't checked for the other thing above yet. It might be versions of Windows.