The Linux Thai HOWTO

Poonlap Veeratanabutr, `poon-v@fedu.uec.ac.jp`

v0.3, 16 July 1997

This document describes how to set Linux to use Thai language. This means at least, you can read and write Thai plain text document, name filename in Thai and use some applications with Thai characters. I use Linux Slackware96, the path name I describe here may be different to other distributions.

1. Introduction

2. Thai Input and Output

2.1 Linux console
2.2 X Window system

3. Applications with Thai characters

3.1 Non-network applications
3.2 Network applications
3.3 Thai Applications on X window.
3.4 Other Tips.

4. References and FTP sites

4.1 Other documents of relevance
4.2 FTP and Web sites