How to install your browser
displaying Thai characters
First of all you should be using
Window95/98 Thai version which have included a bunch of Thai fonts ending
with UPC (True type fonts)
Netscape Navigator
Gold (3.0 up)
- Choose proportional Thai
font (UPC).
Menu Options, selects general preferences
, clicks folder Fonts and choose proportional fonts ending with
UPC (True type fonts)
Netscape communicator (4.0
up and also including version 4.50 up)
There are two ways to
choose
1.-
In case of the preexisting Thai fonts in Window95/98 Thai version are not
effective enough to display Thai characters. Additional font is required,
such as KSC Cordia which can be downloaded
from here at the end of this document (MDCU
CAI Center at the 4th floor of Library Building is available
for any requests of this font and advises) This font (KSC Cordia)
is recommended in case of Thai Webpages are not written in the usual
way as described in the second way below.
-
- Install KSC Cordia by using Control Panel and double click
icon Fonts, chooses menu File and then selects Install New Font.
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- In Netscape communicator, choose menu Edit, select Preferences,
double clicks Fonts and then set Variable Width Font by selecting
KSC Cordia. (size = 14)
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- Set Fixed Width Font by selecting Courier New (size = 12)
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- Select radio button of Using my default fonts, overriding
document-specified fonts
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- Choose menu View, select Encoding and then
set Western.
2.-
You can also make your Netscape communicator (4.0 to 4.50 up) browser displaying
Thai in another way, by using fixed font
(This choice is highly recommended in case of browsing the web and using
Netscape Composer for writting webpage and save them in Thai which
can be read by NotePad).
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- First you must have fixed font in your computer (Folder
Fonts in Control Panel), such as FixedDB ThaiText
New and install it into your Window 95/98 by using Control
Panel and double click icon Fonts, chooses menu File and then selects
Install New Font.
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- In Netscape communicator, choose menu Edit,
select Preferences, double clicks Fonts and then
set For the Encoding pull-down menu, select Western.
In the Variable Width Font pull-down menu, choose Times
New Roman. In Fixed Width Font pull-down menu, select Courier
New. At radio button, mark Use document-specified fonts,
including Dynamic fonts.
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- At menu View, select
Encoding, choose Western (ISO-8859-1)
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- Again in Netscape communicator, choose menu Edit,
select Preferences, double clicks Fonts and then
set For the Encoding pull-down menu, select User Defined.
In the Variable Width Font pull-down menu, choose font ending
with UPC, such as AngsanaUPC. In Fixed Width Font
pull-down menu, select FixedDB ThaiText New
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- At menu View, select Encoding,
choose User Defined
in case of displaying Thai.
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- Repeat menu View,
select Encoding, choose Western and then select Set
Default Encoding. (This will set font-type Time New Roman at
the begining of browsing webpage. If it encounters webpage using Thai characters,
it will automatically switch to User Defined 's font. In case of no-response
in switching, you must manually switch it by select menu View and
choose Encoding and set User Defined.)
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- You can keep selecting Encoding,
to switch between User Defined and Western
to make them properly display.
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- In case of using Netscape Composer,
before saving the modified webpage you should set User Defined in
Encoding of menu View.
You can download Thai font (KSC Cordia
and FixedDB ThaiText New) from here "thaifont.zip"
(61 KB)
If you haven't AngsanaUPC or CordiaUPC,
you can also download from here "UPCfonts.zip"
(333 Kb).
Internet Expoler
It is usually no problem in viewing Thai. The best choice is using KSC
Cordia in case of fault display in Thai
Additional informations
of how to view Thai on your web
browser are from
-
Chiangmai "How
to read Thai"
-
NACSIS R&D
(Tokyo, Japan) "How
to view Thai document on Netscape"
-
Salanoknoi
( in the document "Noknoi
Template")