Re: Buddhaghosa College of Pali Studies

Dear Piya,

To add to Ven. Dhammanando's remarks, I'd like to mention that the
Thai characters appear correctly on my computer with Windows 95 and
Internet Explorer 5.5. I don't remember exactly how this font came to
be installed on my computer but I can think of two possibilities: it
came about through a pop-up prompt for an installation from Microsoft
either upon receiving an email message from a Thai friend or while
visiting the budsir.org website. At any rate, it was all done
automatically after clicking on the ok button.

You can also access the pdf files on the Buddhaghosa College's website
by going directly to the pdf directory at:
http://buddhaghosa.mcu.ac.th/pdf/ . There, you will see a listing of
the pdf files with names in Roman characters, any of which can be
downloaded eg. Kaccaayana's grammatical suttas are in gajjayana.pdf.
Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Jim

> 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