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PRB: Fixed Font Diacritics Appear After Base Char in Thai Win95

Article ID: 188009

Article Last Modified on 7/11/2005

Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit-January 2000 Edition, when used with:
- Microsoft Windows 95

This article was previously published under Q188009

SYMPTOMS

On Thai Windows 95, the diacritics (non-spacing characters) of the fixed spacing fonts have non-zero spacing, which causes the diacritics to appear after instead of above the base character.

This fixed width font is available on Thai Windows 95 as a system font, FixedSys.

CAUSE

Windows 95 Thai version does not support fixed width font. FixedSys is shipped with Windows 95 Thai. However, the system doesn't support fixed width (neither bitmap nor TrueType). The font is supplied for readability purposes and not for correct display of Thai vowel/tone mark. This is not just a Thai problem. Other languages that have characters stacked on the top or bottom of each other also experience this problem.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

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