Hi tracer,
on Monday, October 18, 1999, 12:09:55 PM, tracer wrote:
Thomas>> Every script has drawbacks when you want to use it for another
Thomas>> language. ;-)
t> I know but here in Thailand it must be about the only place where they
t> try to make a language which is quite irregular when it comes to the
t> way things are written/pronounced, regular... problem is for instance
t> Than, Tani, Tanee and whatever being used for the same thing.
t> Or Thanon, tanon whatever for street. The good thing is that Thai
t> postal office employees are masters in recognising screwed up
t> addresses...
The problem is not Thai, but English. "Thanon" is spelled to-tung,
no-noo, no-noo. Thani is spelled to-tong, sara ah, no-noo, sara ih.
How to trans-scribe this into English, is up to everybody's taste,
because there is no recognized standard. After all, it would be only
for the "illiterate farangs", so who cares... ;-)
t> Anyway, drop me pls that suitable Thai font you said you had.
t> Its a non proportional TT font correct??
Yes; I already sent it to you yesterday by attachment to mail. It's
called DbThaiText Fixed. If yo9u didn't receive it, I will send it
again in the evening (I don't have it here in the office).
...And for those who were wondering why this thread is still "on" the
lsit: I believe that it is important for a truely international email
client to know about the problems that arise if you use langauges
other than English. I believe the European langauges and Russian have
been taken care of by the developers, but we are only boiling down on
the problem with Asian languages. I hope that's OK.
--
Best regards,
Thomas.
Message reply created with The Bat! 1.36
under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998
on a Pentium II/350 MHz.
--
--------------------------------------------------------------
View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com
To send a message to the list moderation team click here:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, click below and send the generated message.
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--------------------------------------------------------------
