Thaiweb.web.th - Thai font setup

Thai font setup

There are still many complains from some thai users about seeing and typing thai
in web browsers. Example is: (from pantip.com) 'I can't read that thai site.', 'Do you
know how to type in thai?' So, I should collected information about thai font setup
for most popular browsers to clarify thai net surfers (and builders).

Reading thai and writing thai in web browsers:
The most common cause is incorrect font and encoding setting in your browser.
The solution is setting both variable-width and fixed-width fonts to thai.

Follow these links to see how to set your browser to read and type thai correctly:
- Thai font setup at Internet Thailand (english language)
describe about setting font to read thai in most popular browser
- Sala nok-noi's thai font setup (thai language)
describe about document encoding and settings in most popular browsers

Composing thai web pages:
You can write thai web pages in many ways, ranging from MS-DOS text editors
to huge web pages composers, but you should not follow these tactics:
1) Pre-define your document encoding with META tag like this one:

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-874">

This may become unreadable language on some computers. Moreover,
there is currently no standard encoding (HTTP) for thai language!
2) Use <FONT FACE="fontname"> tag with too few supply of fontnames.
What will happended if your client has no fonts you specfied?

Last update: 22 June 1999
If you have any comment or suggestion, please send e-mail to me.