Re[2]: Character Encoding / Fonts

2001-10-30 Thread Han Thomas

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.

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Re[2]: Character Encoding / Fonts

2001-10-29 Thread Han Thomas

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.

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