Displaying Thai fonts in Framemaker 8 and creating Webworks ePublisher help

Hello Michael,

Do I need to use a Unicode font (e.g. Arial Unicode MS) within Framemaker 8? That does not give Thai readible text...
Or do we need to apply that font within ePublihser? Or both?
I have the Thai regional setting, but it still gives me unreadible text... in both Framemaker 8 and my generated online help.

Tom

There should be no problem involved as long as you use a font with Unicode encoding and have the additional language support activated on your machine. The latter can be found in the control panel for regional and language options (or similar, I don't have an English UI available). There is a checkbox mentioning support for Thai and this will ask for your original Windows CD-ROM and also install default fonts.

- Michael

Hello Arnis,

thanks for your reply!
I read that solution too, but the problem is that I need to use a "common" available Thai font, as we need to create online help with ePublisher afterwards. As long as we stay within Framemaker and e.g. PDF we can use a downloaded font, but the output to html online help requires a 'common' font. We cannot ask our customers to install a new font, just to view our online help...

regards,
Tom

Tom,

This has been reported on the Frameusers list last May
(http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2008-May/012244.html ).
There must be something squirrley about the AngsanaUPC (and other
Monotype UPC Thai) TTF encodings. The workaround was to use a freebie
"DBThai" font instead.

Adobe has a Thai OTF font at
http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=1743
that might work for you.