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[LaurentZ]

When I copy thai script from a website to a Word document, I just get small squares which I never can turn back to Thai. This is the case for example when I want to copy a thai word from the dictionary.
I use a non-thai version of Windows 98 and Explorer 5.5, and thai encoding is enabled. I have no problem to read or to write thai but just cannot copy and paste thai text to a Word document.
I tried to use Wordpad as you advised in a former post but this does not work when I try to copy again to a Word document.
Do you have any suggestion ?

[Glenn Slayden]

Windows 98 only supports a very minimal subset of Unicode functionality. It's really not a usable OS if you're doing anything which requires Unicode. My impression is that they only implemented the minimum Unicode APIs that were required in order to make Internet Explorer run.

Hate to tell you, but the easiest solution for you would be to upgrade to Windows XP. The US version of it supports Unicode and Thai really well.

Glenn

[ling ลิง]

I was asking questions about pasting thai ages ago and Brian was very helpful indeed.
But I still have a problem with my Thai software dictionary version4 by สอ เสถบุตร, some bits of it still don't display properly.
Everything displays ok on this wbsite, but then I noticed one word that doesn't. Its at the top of the message boards where it says 'Hello, (here it should display 'ลิง' but it isn't displaying properly) ling. So Glen in this small box must be a different encoding, right!? I thought that if I could solve this problem (or you solve it for me would be more realistic!) then maybe it would also put the dictionary right too!
I've got windows 2000NToperating system, with encoding set to thai windows.
so anyway any ideas Glen I would be very grateful.

[Glenn Slayden]

Are you saying that that "hello" place is the only place where it doesn't display the Thai properly? If so, then it's a problem with the UBB bulletin board software, which I can't really fix myself, although I can report it. Let me know.

Glenn

[ling ลิง]

Glen,
thanks for your prompt reply, more than what can be said about mine!!

Are you saying that that "hello" place is the only place where it doesn't display the Thai properly?

yes thats right only in the Hello box.
this is what it looks like " Hello, xxx ling " (the x's being unreadable characters)
and it should be " Hello, ลิง ling ", obviously.

'UBB bulletin board software' what is this in the English language please!

Surely its something to do with my computer or software, well I'm no expert so wouldn't know

thanks again

[Glenn Slayden]

This message board is one part (currently the only part) of this website which I purchased from a 3rd party vendor (Infopop) and plugged into the web site. Their product is called UBB--Ultimate Bulletin Board. That's what we're using here.

The message board part of the screen that you see is generated by this product, so the problem you mention is a bug in their code, which is written in the Perl computer language. I don't know Perl, so I wouldn't be able to fix it myself.

I reported the problem to them.

Glenn

[Glenn Slayden]

Here's the reply from InfoPop:

Hello Glenn:

Thank you for contacting Infopop Support, we appreciate your inquiry.

The "Hello [user]" login status is controlled via JavaScript; as far as we know JavaScript doesn't fully support Unicode.

However, our UBB.threads message board is capable of displaying a user's login name in the language/Unicode selected. Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns.

Regards,

Jacob Tov้s
Customer Advocate Lead

The "threads" product he's referring to is their higher-end product, which we don't use.

[Alek]

But I still have a problem with my Thai software dictionary version4 by สอ เสถบุตร, some bits of it still don't display properly.

Just today I got that dictionary working properly. Take a look at the soc.culture.thai usenet thread Windows XP and Thai Fonts .

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