Re[2]: Character Encoding / Fonts
Hello Dierk, Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 2:52:37 PM, you wrote: DH for the time being you will have to work with either FixedSys or DH another Thai font you may find on the Internet - as long as it is a DH fixed pitch font. Ah yes of course...! I remember fiddling around with fixed-spaced Thai fonts years ago on software which required monospaced fonts. Anyway, I found a fairly good Thai courier replacement which looks pretty good in Latin text as well. I found it at: http://software.thai.net/tis-620/courierthai.html The only minor drawback when displaying English text using this font is that the line spacing is a bit wider, which is something also most of the Thai standard Windows fonts do. (Except for Tahoma which I prefer for that reason) Just like the Fixedsys font however, it doesn't display the Thai vowels which appear above or below the consonant all that well. I guess there is just no way around that; all monospaced fonts of course skip the same space after every character. DH BTW, yours is the first sensible use for proportional fonts in e-mail DH I ever saw ... even if it is only for cosmetic purposes. :-) I loved TB the moment I saw the default font was Courier. :-) When it comes to Thai text, it's more than just cosmetic though; for the occaisional Thai email I can live with odd spaces in the text, however I think a Thai person who is used to perfectly spaced text in Outlook (curses!) would think twice before switching to TB. Fo r exa mple ima gine you r te xt loo ki ng li ke this. That's pretty much the effect when you try to write Thai with Fixedsys and other monospaced Thai fonts. Cheers, Han. +--+ | Han Thomas 25/1 Moo 2 Pa Bong, Saraphee| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]Chiang Mai 50140 THAILAND | +--+ -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re[2]: Character Encoding / Fonts
Hello Jernej, On Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 2:39:24 PM, you wrote some things about Character Encoding / Fonts to which I would like to add the following: HT Is there a way to use variable pitch fonts in The Bat (Tahoma would be a HT good choice), and is there a way to quickly switch without having to change HT the font in the editor preferences for the whole program? Ideally, I would HT just switch the encoding from 'Latin' to 'Thai', where Thai would be HT defined as using the Tahoma font. JS The Bat! can use variable pitch fonts only in the latest beta versions JS (with the RTF viewer). You can get them from the beta-testers only JS area of the site. Note, that it's slower than normal viewer, and JS still has some issues. Ok, I'll try that.. I don't receive *that* many emails in Thai anyway, and my current e-mail software (Forte Agent) doesn't show it fully automatic either. Normally I try to stay as far away from HTML/RTF in email as I can spit it.. I assume this RTF mode can be switched off easily when it's not needed? Basically all I need is to temporarily switch to a font like Tahoma, only when doing stuff in Thai language. The Thai encoding in The Bat! already seems to work; if I write ÀÒÉÒä·Â and encode this message as 'Thai (Windows-874)' then a recipient using for example Outlook (curses!) sees it in Thai just fine. JS BTW: you may try to edit the registry, and manually change fonts, but JS the results are usually very ugly :) :-] Evil Grin... :) Cheers, Han. +--+ | Han Thomas 25/1 Moo 2 Pa Bong, Saraphee| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]Chiang Mai 50140 THAILAND | +--+ -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
