How do i get my website to display thai and english text, it wont work :S!

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I have no idea why I cant do this. I am adding content to a html page that uses both english text and THAI (below is my header information):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“content-type” content=“text-html; charset=utf-8”>
<title>Untitled</title>
<link rel=“stylesheet” href=“css/global.css” type=“text/css” media=“screen” charset=“utf-8” />
<link rel=“shortcut icon” href=“images/global/favicon.ico” />

<style type=“text/css”>
.thai {
font-family:Tahoma, Arial Unicode MS;
font-size: 2em;
}
</style>
</head>

Here is the content I am trying to display as THAI:

    &lt;div id="body"&gt;

    	&lt;div id="content"&gt;&lt;span class="thai"&gt;&#3652;&#3604;&#3657;&#3629;&#3629;&#3585;&#3649;&#3610;&#3610;&#3588;&#3634;&#3609;&#3651;&#3627;&#3657;&#3648;&#3611;&#3655;&#3609;&#3607;&#3619;&#3591;&#3626;&#3637;&#3656;&#3648;&#3627;&#3621;&#3637;&#3656;&#3618;&#3617;&#3588;&#3634;&#3591;&#3627;&#3617;&#3641; &#3648;&#3614;&#3639;&#3656;&#3629;&#3649;&#3585;&#3657;&#3611;&#3633;&#3597;&#3627;&#3634;&#3585;&#3634;&#3619;&#3648;&#3585;&#3636;&#3604;&#3626;&#3609;&#3636;&#3617;&#3629;&#3633;&#3609;&#3648;&#3609;&#3639;&#3656;&#3629;&#3591;&#3617;&#3634;&#3592;&#3634;&#3585;&#3585;&#3634;&#3619;&#3610;&#3636;&#3604;&#3627;&#3619;&#3639;&#3629;&#3591;&#3629;&#3586;&#3629;&#3591;&#3588;&#3634;&#3609;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    
    &lt;/div&gt;

Here is what I am seeing in my browser (firefox but tested in safari, chrome, IE… all providing same results):

ได้à¸à¸à¸à¹à¸šà¸šà¸„านให้เป็นทรงสี่เหลี่ยมคางหมู เพื่à¸à¹à¸à¹‰à¸›à¸±à¸à¸«à¸²à¸à¸²à¸£à¹€à¸à¸´à¸”สนิมà¸à¸±à¸™à¹€à¸™à¸·à¹ˆà¸à¸‡à¸¡à¸²à¸ˆà¸²à¸à¸à¸²à¸£à¸šà¸´à¸”หรืà¸à¸‡à¸à¸‚à¸à¸‡à¸„าน

I have been searching google for the past hour and havnt managed to solve the problem, according to what I have read it should work, but it is not showing.

It shows the THAI text in dreamweaver too.

Please help :frowning: I cant move on with this project until I can make the THAI text display.

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anybody know what to do? its driving me mad

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*please don’t bump threads. Sometimes it takes a while

Maybe this SitePoint article will help?
The Definitive Guide to Web Character Encoding

4

Hi James. Just tested your content in all mayor browsers and it is working for me.

Did you had a different charset before using utf-8?

5

Do you have the needed font files for your browser to use?

And should Tahoma be your first choice?

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try

<meta meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-874" />

It displays your Thai text correctly in my IE8