How to set Thai distributed in MS Word 2004 for Mac?

[Amornthep Jaidee]

I can type Thai language in MS Word 2004; however, I have a problem with
word cut. Thai language unlike English spacing every a sentence end not
spacing in every word. I found when I typed in Thai in long sentence, MS
Word cut a whole sentence to bottom line not on the middle to keep a line
justify. Therefore, there are large amount of blank space on my document. I
know that I can set Thai distributed in MS Word (For Windows). I couldn't
find Thai distributed option anywhere in MS Word 2004 for Mac. Could anybody
help me with this issue? Thanks Aj

 

[Andreas Prilop]

I can type Thai language in MS Word 2004; however, I have a problem with
word cut. Thai language unlike English spacing every a sentence end not
spacing in every word. I found when I typed in Thai in long sentence, MS
Word cut a whole sentence to bottom line not on the middle to keep a line
justify. Therefore, there are large amount of blank space on my document.

Insert a "zero width space" U+200B between Thai words.

 

[Amornthep Jaidee]

Hi Andreas,
Thanks for your help but I quite don't understand how to insert a zero width
space between Thai words? Do I have to set anything somewhere? Thanks Aj

 

[Andreas Prilop]

Thanks for your help but I quite don't understand how to insert a zero width
space between Thai words?

The "zero width space" is included in the MacThai character set
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/THAI.TXT
Therefore I think you could type it with the Thai keyboard layout.
Try option-spacebar, shift-spacebar, shift-option-spacebar,
control-spacebar, etc. And consult the online help of your Thai
operating system!

In MS Word, you can "Insert Special character" (or whatever it's
called), then select U-200B.

 

[Alan Wood]

The "zero width space" is included in the MacThai character set
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/THAI.TXT
Therefore I think you could type it with the Thai keyboard layout.
Try option-spacebar, shift-spacebar, shift-option-spacebar,
control-spacebar, etc. And consult the online help of your Thai
operating system!

In MS Word, you can "Insert Special character" (or whatever it's
called), then select U-200B.

The real problem is that Word 2004 is not intended to support Thai (neither
Unicode nor MacThai).

Andreas' suggestion might help, but it would take a long time to add all
those extra characters.

Because Word 2004 does not support Thai, you will need to check very
carefully that all of your vowels (and other characters that appear above
and below consonants) are displayed correctly.