Can't format Thai in message body

[jfmxl]

Hi,

When I type Thai into the subject line... no problem.

When I type Thai into the message body... it's a mess. Thunderbird goes brain dead. No idea where the vowels or tone marks go.

So I know Thunderbird can do it right, because it does it right in the subject line. But not in the message body.

I've tried to find a preference to fix it... but no luck.

Any help appreciated.

[jfmxl]

If I send the message as html hen all is well... but is there no way for it to display properly without html?

[malliz]

Is this a Thunderbird problem? Or web mail

[jfmxl]

Well... I'm using the Thunderbird application. It allows two sorts of mail content : ordinary text, and html. I prefer ordinary text. Ordinary text is 8-bits, 7-bits I believe, still, within email constraints. But that's the case whether it's sent as text or as html. It's up to the mail reader/writer to make it look like something. Thunderbird seems to be able to do that with html, using gecko I imagine, but unable to do that on its own? That's my question. Is there some button to push somewhere in Thunderbird that will enable Thunderbird to format Thai characters decently in text mode?

[DanRaisch]

Moving from Firefox Support to Thunderbird Support.

[jfmxl]

Where am I? I thought I posted this in the Thunderbird support... that's where I am now, right? Did I post in Firefox' support forum initially and get moved here?

[DanRaisch]

Did I post in Firefox' support forum initially and get moved here?

Yes, that is what happened.

[jfmxl]

Please stay with your original thread... that'd be the one with no answers, right?

[DanRaisch]

To whom are you responding? No one here said anything about an "original thread".

[jfmxl]

Well... my original confusion in posting has yielded advice on how and where to post but none on my original problem. So I reposted it :

viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1968155

That posting was quickly jailed, so I'm back here... at the post with no answers... unable to post anew.

[DanRaisch]

There is no point in posting anew. As you were advised in the locked topic, posting in multiple topics simply confuses things rather than improving your chances of getting an answer. Also, please keep in mind that your initial post was created in the Firefox forums so for part of the time you've been waiting people were not even sure in what application the problem you were describing existed.

[jfmxl]

I'll be patient. I had just thought that by now this message had slipped so far down the list that no one would read it. As well it has lots of responses... I'm adding one more now... so an ordinary person will probably assume the problem's been fixed and will leave it unopened.

[jfmxl]

No answers... Is this a hard question? Seems like it should be easy.

I just sent an email written in html so the recipient might have some chance to read it.... I looked at it in my sent folder and it looks like hell. I tired view original html and it made no difference.

Come on... you've cast me out into the darkness, please give me a little help here!

[dtobias]

Sounds like some sort of character set issue? How are you typing the Thai text? Is it with a special language-specific keyboard? Is it using a standard Unicode encoding, or something proprietary?

[jfmxl]

I'm just typing away at my ordinary keyboard. The text is utf-8 encoded. The subject line comes out right in any case. The body comes out right in the event that I shift-click the write mail button and let Thunderbird wrap html tags around what I type. I think that's what happens when you shift-click write.

But whether I type as usual or into html mode, the resultant text looks like hell... at least in the copy in my sent folder. The indications from the people that I'm emailing is that they cannot read the damn text. The vowels and tone marks are offset, not over or under the consonants as they should be. It's like typing into a dumb terminal.

How can I fix this? I'm going to have to open a yahoo mail account to correspond with my Thai friends. Yahoo gets it right... no trouble. How absurd is that?