First solution, I found it by configuring somethings in Firefox's Setting. This one will force Firefox 3 to display all web pages according to our chosen font. The following step shows how to do so.
- In the menu bar click Tools (Alt + T) -> Options...
- Select Content Tab. Then in fonts & colors region, select Advanced..
- Finally, uncheck "allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selection above" then OK.
Second solution, I get this one from the internet[1]. It is very easy, just delete the font from the system and Firefox will use default font for that page.
- Go to Windows Control Panel -> Fonts
- Find and Delete "Lucida Grande.ttf" and "Lucida Grande Bold.ttf"
What I don't like about this one is you will not be able to render pages with "Lucida Grande" (oh!, I am quite a perfectionist). It will use default font for instead of "Lucida Grande" in English and Thai.
Final solution, I come up with the solution when I surf internet on Mac OS X with Firefox 3. I noticed that a problem website rendered correctly in Mac. Therefore, "Lucida Grande" font in Mac must differ from Windows. Fortunatly, I had to port fonts from Mac to Windows for my aunt about a month ago and I now know the way how to do that.
- Copy "LucidaGrande.dfont" in /Systems/Library/Fonts (Mac OS X 10.5) to Windows
- Convert dfont to ttf. You can use a program like Crossfont[2] which has 15-days trial period.
- Find and Replace (Copy&Paste) "Lucida Grande.ttf" and "Lucida Grande Bold.ttf" in Control Panel -> Fonts with Mac's Font.
Resources:
[1] - http://www.thaicyberpoint.com/ford/blog/id/520/
[2] - Crossfont
8 comments:
I am so happy that some1 share the same interest as I do. Can you send me a copy of the converted Lucida Grande.ttf(with bold and italics) please ?
my email address is jokharedia2@gmail.com
http://mobile.thaisecondhand.com/
Other Thai webpages could be viewed perfectly by Fire Fox 3.0
except the link and some others site, would you please give some opinion on this.
I am thinking that the site is not using a conventional fonts rather some kind of font which doesn't generally been supported by FireFox 3.0
Thank you in advance.
Heuankeo,
it is a problem with encoding. They must set something wrong in HTML or CSS.
However, I have a simple solution.
View (from menubar) -> Character Encoding -> Thai (TIS-620 or Windows-874)
Thanks so much for this info, I am trying to learn Thai but the fonts on the page I was using were too tiny to even make out!
The setting in Firefox you found works under Ubuntu Linux as well, which is what I'm running.
Thanks a lot.. it's very useful !!!
That is a great blog post. I have a related problem. I'm learning Thai, and I've been told the best online dictionary is done by the Royal Thai Institute. But I can't get it to display properly in ubuntu.
http://rirs3.royin.go.th/
I even tried using ie4linux, but it still doesn't display properly. Any help is really appreciated.
kit,
I tried it on Ubuntu 9.10 and it works fine.
All I do, was change encoding to TIS-620 (view->character encoding->SE&SW asian->TIS-620).
Make sure that you've already installed Thai font in Ubuntu (ttf-thai-tlwg).
Hi,
That's fixed it, thank you!
Kit
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