Forums mIRC Help Problems with Thai input

I have a thai keyboard, running Windows XP english version with extra input installed. I have no problem using thai input on webpages and other applications, but when i try using mirc i run into problems. I can see thai text typed in channels and stuff and i can write in thai as far as the editbox goes. But as soon as i send my typed text, all that appear is ?????????. I have tried all combinations of the Multibyte options too without any luck.

Is there any way to fix this problem? Thai fonts, thai input, reading others thai text and typing in thai text works, except when sending it. Feels like i am very close to a solution.

Try changing the font in the channel? /help /font

As i said in my post, that already works. I have thai fonts, i can type in thai in other applications, i can type thai in the editbox window in mirc as well, but as soon as i send it, it appears as question marks.

So what probably happens is that the text isn't sent to the server correctly.

The problem is that mIRC isn't very multilanguage friendly at the moment, it seems that it doesn't support unicodes, so you will have todo an alternative meathod instead:

Open the font settings of a given channel, find some font which is well known, under the "Script" drop down list, select Thai, and that shall solve your problems.

Note: Not all fonts support many languages in "script".

I already have that. using Tahoma and have tried several UPC-fonts as well. All of them display the same result: ?????


I can see thai text by others and i can type in thai in all editboxes (messageboxes). I see the thai text that i type in, so it all works to that point. it's when it appears after i have pressed enter it all just turns into ??????

It's like mirc is sending the text in the wrong format to the server or something.

I have, as of yet, to find a solution to this problem? Is there some kind of flaw in mIRC that prevents me from getting mIRC to send my thai input correctly to the server?

BUMP

Is there really noone that knows why this could be a problem?

Using thai in MSN works just fine, but not mIRC, why is that?

It's not a flaw, just a simple case of non-existance. As Ash Fox said, mIRC doesn't support Unicode at the moment. Khaled has it on the drawing board but there's no set date for implementation because there is no advance notice of features. You'll just have to persevere for the time being.

Hi,
Was this problem ever solved? I was using MIRC 6.12 on Win ME (English edition), and was able to type and view Thai correctly in MIRC.
On upgrading to Win XP a few days ago, I can't get Thai script to display properly. It appears in the text boxes OK, but on sending the message it just appears as ????? (question marks).
Thanks in advance for any advice/help on how to get Thai script to work properly in MIRC/Win XP.

Well, for anyone else that's interested, I found the guide for adding Thai language support at http://www.thailand-uk.com/fonts.html seems to have worked, and the problem is now solved.