Yahoo Mail and Thai Characters Not Working

[gawguy]

I just received an email from a Tirac. I told her she could write in Thai now, but I received garbage in Yahoo mail, not Thai characters. I searched web:

 

"YAHOO MAIL BUG

Having trouble reading e-mail from your foreign pen pals? Yahoo has acknowledged some problems with e-mails that contain foreign characters it doesn't support. The problem causes certain messages encoded with character sets other than US-ASCII to appear incorrectly. Yahoo currently encodes your outgoing messages with a US-ASCII character set; however, the company plans to add foreign character support in the near future. As of now there is no projected resolution date."

 

Oh...shit! Really!? I have other email. Can I forward it? Can I fix the Yahoo problem? Can I copy the garbled characters to another program and have them decoded?

 

My efforts so far haven't worked. I just get the garbled characters. Tried forwarding to aol mail and copied into MS Word set for Thai characters. Boy! This is really bad!!

 

GG

[jai-dee]

I can display Thai script in Yahoo mail. But not by default, I have to select the right encoding. Right click in the message, encoding, more, thai. Did you try this? You might also need to download a thai font, not sure about that.

[markle]

Which browser are you using ? Internet Explorer will read Thai script. as mentioned above, go to 'View' choose 'Encoding' then choose 'Thai (Windows)'

If you are using anything else you're on your own.

[gawguy]

Jai Dee,

 

No I hadn't tried right-clicking the message. Who knew!!??

 

But now I have and it works. Thank you!

 

GG