Hi Keith,
on Saturday, October 16, 1999, 10:13:38 AM, Keith Russell wrote:
>>>> The only problem I found was that one needed the USA windows to run
>>>> them as running English ofice 2000 on other European languages could
>>>> cause corruption...
Keith Russell>>> Okay, not a problem for me, since I'm running English Windows. Might
Keith Russell>>> be for others, though.
>> Most of the mixed language versions like Thai are unstable and I
>> havent seen any critical updates for ages so presumably those should
>> be targets of hacking attachs(g)
KR> "Mixed language versions" like Thai? I don't understand what you're
KR> saying here.
Dual-language versions. The Thai Windows is actualy Thai/English. Used
it for nine years ;-)
>>>> and in my experience language mixing here in the
>>>> far East is a problem (and a large amount of our business in sorting
>>>> it out again...)
Keith Russell>>> Fascinating. So what is your business? Please reply in private if
Keith Russell>>> you'd like; I'm very interested.
>> We sell / build / service PC's in South Thailand and most of our
>> customers are the local foreigners who kind of dislike the idea to
>> have Thais inside their systems...
>> Plus that I myself am involved in the USA in a system security
>> company and am at present setting up a second service center in the
>> area where I live...
That is *very* interesting - whereabouts in Southern Thailand are you?
I am going into some software selling in Thailand, with friends in
BKK. Target group Thais, though, not foreigners. I just came back from
Phuket and might be there again in two weeks or so.
>> Thai has a small utility from a local university which works fine,
KR> Small utility that does what?
I'd like to know which one you mean. I would also like to know which
encoding system you think is more widely used: Chula or KU? I don't
have a Thai Windows any more, and when I did, I didn't look what they
use.
One interesting thing: C-win's chinese character set Big5 overrrides
the fonts on all applics, and even Thai fonts display as chinese
characters. Exception: Chula Word works excellent. It comes with the
Thai drivers and for some reason, they override C-Win. I have to find
out how they do that, that's our solution for the CJK problem!
>> stay away from Thai master, its better looking but also a master in
>> system corruption. So if you need Thai, very likely a font could be
>> found for theBAT..I havent tried it. (And anyway, I cannot read or
>> write it but I can install chinese/japanese or whatever windows....).
I have a number of Thai fonts, and my favourite is Angsual. You can
download more from Nectec (if you are with Internet Thailand
Co.,Ltd.).
KR> So we have someone with a Spanish surname who lives in Taiwan and
KR> doesn't read or write Chinese but does read or write Thai, and another
KR> who lives (or works) in Thailand and doesn't read or write Thai....
And an American (Englishman/Australian?) who reads and writes Korean...
KR> This is truly an international community we have here, isn't it? I
KR> think it's great! (As well as being very envious....)
;-)
>> We have as problem here anyway that hardly anyone wants to pay for
>> software so while I wouldnt mind selling theBAT, with all the free
>> software around its , well, difficult!
I sold (!) some of the programmes I wrote in Thailand. :-)
Keith Russell>>> I have downloaded all the Korean support. The result was that Internet
Keith Russell>>> Explorer and Outlook/Express now work great--but no effect on The Bat,
Keith Russell>>> which, as Thomas mentioned, does not appear to pay any attention to
Keith Russell>>> the DBCS fonts.
>> correct... But Thai has diferent fonts.
KR> Different from what? Do you mean that they're not DBCS fonts? Or that
KR> TB will display Thai using various fonts? Or something else?
Thai is not a double-byte language as I explained earlier. But you
have a choice of different fonts, as Thais can be very creative. <g>
Keith Russell>>> Thanks--especially for the Office 2000 suggestion. I'll check it out.
>> Should work, MS says somewhere it is using unicode, no idea if correct
>> or if it changed...
KR> Using Unicode for Office 2000? Or for Windows 2000? I think Unicode
KR> requires OS support....
<risking to sound stupid> What is Unicode? An encoding system, similar
to ISO-8859-1 or so?
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Best regards,
Thomas.
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