I'm looking for help in improving the Thai Fonts that can be viewed in SuSE-9.3 with Firefox v.1.04.

I am trying to get my Thai wife to use Linux more than Windows, but she is unhappy with the Firefox Thai fonts under Linux (but she likes the Netscape Thai fonts under WinXP).

Currently under SuSE-9.3 Firefox v.1.04 she has character encoding Thai ISO-8859-11, Thai TIS-620, and Thai Windows-874 available. However none of them really present Thai characters properly, as the spacing and vertical positioning is not good under firefox (according to my wife).

Please, has anyone encountered and solved this problem?

My wife seems reasonably happy with the Thai Fonts in Open Office, although she has not spent much time with that yet (so I am bracing myself for more font difficulty).

My Thai wife may have found the solution herself.

She went to a Thai language website:
http://thailinuxcafe.com/html/module...name=Downloads
and downloaded some True Type Fonts for Thai (in a compressed file, that uncompressed to be an rpm for Mandrake). This Mandrake rpm installed OK on SuSE-9.3, as near as we can tell.

She then, under FireFox, selected EDIT > PREFERENCES > GENERAL > FONTS & COLORS and then under "FONTS FOR" selected "THAI". She then had to custom choose the Thai fonts under "proportional", "serif", "sans-serif" and "monospace" selections. According to my wife, it was only by her downloading the "True Type Fonts" (from the Thai web site), that she was able to get the extra font selections needed to customise her FireFox under the "proportional", "serif", "sans-serif" and "monospace" selections. When we tried to do this on my PC's linux (where I did not download the True Type Fonts), we could not customize the Firefox.

Of course, the Thai web site with Thai fonts, being in Thai, meant I was completely useless, when it came to helping her in this.

Still, she seems reasonably happy now with the Firefox fonts, although she was complaining Firefox (for Linux) font control is more like Netscape 4.7, and its not as good as the more recent Netscape versions (for WinXP).