Hello Thomas, On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 10:52:59 +0700 GMT (02/11/02, 10:52 +0700 GMT), Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> I had to go to Options / Editor Prefs / Display / Font: change, and > change the font manually to a Thai font in order to be able to read > the message. Of course, after reading it, I had to switch the font > back to Courier New. To expand on this, I had to change not only the font itself but also the font size. > Is there a way to tell TB which font should be associated with a > character set, so that an automatic switching takes place? There isn't. My workaround is this: As I usually use the PTV only, I went to Options / Preferences / Viewer and chose RTV. There I set up AngsualUPC (my favourite Thai font) and the size for the RTV. Switched back to PTV. Now, when a mail in Thai comes in, I only need to switch to the RTV; much easier that previously, I don't need to friggle with all these detailed settings. > Why is the character set switched correctly in the subject line but > not in the body? Question remains. > How do other people on this list who read/write in English *and* a > local language with non-Latin characters (like cyrillic or Greek) > handle this? Do you use just one font, one that has both Latin and > local characters, or is there an easy way to switch? Any takers for this question? > (I don't like the looks of the English letters in the Thai font I use, > so I don't want to use that font as standard for all mails.) This was true to DBThaiText, which I had to use in previous times, as it is a fixed-width font. But luckily, we are not restricted to fixed-width any more with RTV. Latin letters are displayed fine in AngsualUPC, but I just prefer plaintext and Courier New for normal mails. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Si le travail c'est l'opium du peuple, alors je ne veux pas finir drogu�...[ Boris Vian ] Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
