Dear Piya,

> The Thai characters appear as gibberish on the Mahachula
> Buddhaghosa website. How do I get the Thai characters correctly.

On my Macintosh the website appears correctly if I use Netscape
Communicator 4.77, but is gibberish with Internet Exploder. Even
with Netscape it took a bit of tweaking to get the characters to
appear properly.

See if this works:

1) Click on the Netscape 'view' menu, go down to 'character set'
and select 'user-defined'.

2) Go to 'language preferences' and make sure Thai is at the top of
the list.

3) Go to 'font preferences' and select the following options:

* For the encoding: user-defined

* Variable-width font: Thonburi (or whatever Thai font you have
in your system)

* Fixed width font: Ayutthaya (or whatever you have)

* 'Use my fonts, over-riding page-specified fonts'

Then try going to the webpage:

http://buddhaghosa.mcu.ac.th/

I hope it works.

> I studied at the Mahachula during my monk years in Thailand.,
> Brings back many good memories.

I used to know the place pretty well. I didn't study there, but
once spent a year living in Section 5 of Wat Mahathat.

Best wishes,

Dhammanando