Re: [ jEdit-users ] I could previously read Thai strings... now I see little boxes

[Mike M. <ma...@um...>]

(I neglected to cc the list in my earlier reply, so I'm including the 
entire text of our correspondence in case someone else has this issue)

John Francis Lee wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 09:36 -0400, Mike Maxwell wrote:
>> John Francis Lee wrote:
>>>>         Now when I edit files in which I could previously read Thai
>>>>         strings, I see little boxes. I've tried fiddling with the font
>>>>         in Global options | Text Area to no avail.
>>>>         
>>>>         I've forgotten how I got this to work before.
>>>>         
>>> Is this a hard question, or is it so easy that I've insulted everyone's
>>> intelligence by asking it?
>> I doubt that anyone's intelligence is insulted.  Mine isn't.
> good.
> 
>> First question: are these files in Unicode, or an ISO encoding (or 
>> something else)?
> utf-8 encoded
> 
>> Second question: what does jEdit think the encoding of the file is 
>> (check the status bar down at the lower right-hand corner; if jEdit 
>> thinks it's Unicode, it will robably say 'UTF-8', which is the most 
>> common Unicode encoding)
> utf-8
> 
>> Third question: Do you have a Thai font of the appropriate type (Unicode 
>> or ISO, probably) installed on your new PC?
> yes, several
> 
>> Fourth question: Have you selected that Thai-capable font in the Global 
>> Options | Text Area?
> I've tried MS Trebuchet and Arial. No joy when I try Angsana new, the
> premier MS ttf Thai font.
	
I don't have MS Trebuchet on my system, but I do have Arial.  Arial 
doesn't appear to have the Thai Unicode characters, but Arial Unicode MS 
does.  Try that and see if it fixes the problem.
-- 
    Mike Maxwell
    What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?
    --Robert Dicke, Princeton physicist