I still can't see Thai websites in OSX

keda

<a href="http://www.sanook.com"; target="_blank">www.sanook.com</a>



I'm trying to gett o this site for my GF's brother. I posted a similar thread a few months ago and thought things would straighten out after Jag. Apparently not.



I have Thai set as my second language in the international PrefPane and I have selected Thai and Universal in IE. I dont see any international options in OW, but I dont see the fonts there either.



I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas?

amorph

The header for that page includes this:



[code]

&lt;HTML&gt;

[..]

&lt;META http-equiv="Content-Language" content="th"&gt;

&lt;META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-874"&gt;

&lt;META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=tis-620"&gt;

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I'm willing to bet that if it used the more standard:



[code]

&lt;html lang="th"&gt;

&lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;

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... and Unicode instead of funky 8-bit characters, that it would magically render much better.



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frawgz

OmniWeb reads that site fine if you set the character set under its preferences to Thai (Windows, DOS).



Chimera does a better job at autodetecting character sets, so just surfing to that site using Chimera lets you read the text without any manual adjusting.

keda

Thanks, but Im still having no luck. I set the compatibility to IE5.5Windows in OW. I didn't see an option for Thai.



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torifile

[quote]Originally posted by Keda:

<strong>Thanks, but Im still having no luck. I set the compatibility to IE5.5Windows in OW. I didn't see an option for Thai.



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Go to the HTML display preferences. Choose "If no encoding is given use: non-european -&gt; Thai (Windows, DOS)". I just tried it in OW 4.1 and it works fine (I guess, but I can't read thai).

robo

Have you tried using Chimera? I just tried the site, and it works perfectly, and i have no special Thai settings at all.



It's worth a try (nevermind that Chimera is a much better browser than either IE or OmniWeb)



-robo (ducking gobs of muck thrown by the OmniWeb fans here.. i doubt anyone would throw muck in defense of IE )

keda

Thanks, the OW prefs worked. I don't know what it says either, but at least my guest will be happy.



I DL'd Chimera a few months ago, but it didn't seem to work out at the time. Maybe I'll need to give it another chance.



Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but is there any way to make this work in IE? I didn't see any encoding prefs.



Thanks for the help.