Hello, fellow Bat-lovers.
On Friday, October 15, 1999, 9:12:57 PM, Thomas wrote:
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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 ;-)
So the ONLY version of Thai Windows is mixed? Interesting....
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> 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.
The envy is just oozing here....
>>> 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.
I'm lost here, because I know NOTHING about Thai encoding.
> 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!
Probably the same way that Korean Partner or Asian Viewer "overrides"
the 8859-1 character set to display CJK.
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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...
:-) Canadian-American....
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....)
> ;-)
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>>> 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.
True, double-bye encoding is not necessary, because it's an alphabetic
system.
> But you
> have a choice of different fonts, as Thais can be very creative. <g>
Yes, but I'll bet TB will only display one....
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?
Not stupid at all. Unicode is a "new" (circa 1990) character
set/encoding (compatible with ISO-10646) whose goal is to support ALL
the world's written languages with a single character set. It's
intended to be universal, as opposed to something like ISO-8859-1,
which is specific to one (or a few) languages. Obviously, it needs
multiple bytes to accomplish this. You can learn more, if you're
interested, at http://www.unicode.org.
Keith
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