| Steps required to read Thai. |
(For newbie, who want to see all
steps graphically).
Common, face it. Sometime, you need to see to get it. |
My friend, there are two choices, free or pay. "Thai
Master", availatbe both window 95/98 and NT. This Thai driver has good
features and some advantages with a few dollar.
But for the people who don't want to pay, common, follow these steps.
And... Hey! we just have a new choice, you may select to change your
browser to Thaibrowser in which designed for Thai display too. |
| 0. Assume that your operating system is Windows English Version. Oh,
yeh.. if you have Thai version, should you come down here ? |
| 1. Download Thai font |
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1.1 Download the zipfile
(self
extraction) or zip file for DBThaiText, DBThaiTextFixed,DB โดย
คุณหมอสมนึก
or
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Courier
Thai by เศรษฐพล
ลิ้นปราชญา
(settapol@hotmail.com) or
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Modified
Thai by วรวิทย์ ฆังตระกูล
(wwwit@thai.com)
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If those orginal sites doesn't work, here is my archive.
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1.2 Then extract or upzip it to some temporary directory, assume that it
is "c:\temp".
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Really ??, you don't have pkunzip program!!! get
one.
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| 2. Install Thai font to Windows system |
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2.1 Go to the Control panel folder, double click the Fonts Icon.
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2.2 On File menu of the Fonts, select "Install New Font".
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2.3 Select the directory inwhich your fonts are kept ("c:/temp"), then
all the fonts should be listed up.
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2.4 You may click option for "copy to system directory" and
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2.5 Select Thai font by mouse click or "Select all" then "OK".
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| 3. Setup your browser, or other applications. Please read "Thai Languaue
on the Web" |
| 3.1 For Netscape 4.0 or higher |
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3.1.1 Goto Edit -> Preferences-> Apprerance-> Fonts
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3.1.2 Select "For the encoding" to Western
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3.1.3 Set font for Variable Width Fonts to "DB ThaiText" and Fixed Width
Fonts to "DB ThaiTextFixed"
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3.1.4 Set font size that appropiate to your screen.
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3.1.5 Do the same setup for the User Defined encoding.
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3.1.6 Select the "Use my default fonts, overide the
document-specificed font" << This will
help in some cases.
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| 3.2 For Explorer 4.0 or higher |
| Actually IE 5.0 will should work properly for the Thai page that decoded
as window-874. Beside, IE 5.0 is smart enough to download Thai font from
Microsoft website by itself.
How to do that ? Well, just visit some page that contain Thai encoder
meta tag for example : www.mcot.or.th then IE will ask you if you want
to get Thai font.
Well, for some Thai page which decoded with other way, IE may not be
able to choose the Thai font. So, you may have to FORCE the IE to select
Thai decoding by the following steps. (make sure that IE already have Thai
font)
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3.2.1 Goto View -> Encoding
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3.2.2 Select Thai (Window)
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or while you on that page, do right click to see the options and select
Encoding
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| And if your IE is older than 5.0 you may have to
do this (make sure you installed Thai font) |
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3.3.1 Goto View -> Option-> Encoding
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3.3.2 Select Western
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3.3.3 Goto Tools -> Internet Options
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3.3.4 Click at Fonts...
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3.3.5 Select font for Western decoding to be "DBThaiText" and DB "ThatTextFixed"
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| 4. Select the font coding for Thai page |
| For Netscape |
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4.1.1 Go to Thai Language page
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4.1.2 select View -> Character set -> Western
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4.1.3 Reload the page or
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4.1.8 if it not work change Character set to Uesr
defined.
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| For Internet Explorer |
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4.2.1 Back to the page. (and you may need to)
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4.2.2 Refresh the page.
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