I’ve been doing some research on charsets and Unicode and all that sort of stuff, trying to figure out what I need to do to get Thai (and the other languages I’ll be working with, like Greek) working nicely on Linux. I’ve found some success with mlterm so far but haven’t really explored the other possibilities. Firefox does a fairly good job at displaying Thai text half the time, but it’d be nice to lock down the font because sometimes it chooses some that are too small to read. I’ll write this all up when I figure it out, by the way.

Oh, I think I’m going to continue learning Burmese script. I started when I was on my mission but forgot about it until yesterday when I was in the library and found some books on writing Burmese. Fascinating stuff.

I’m finding some success with Thai on Linux in mlterm, a multi-language terminal emulator. It shows Thai correctly, which is really nice, and the font is the best I’ve seen so far. (xiterm works but the fonts are usually too small and the English stuff starts getting ugly, whereas mlterm manages to keep the English looking good too.)