Dear Phra Dhammanando & Jim,

I managed to get into the PDF site thanks to your advice.

However, I only managed to get the first few pages. Must be an error with my Acrobat.

I will keep on trying & thanks again.

Palms together,

Piya

Jim Anderson wrote:

> 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
>
>
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