Cannot read Thai Bible on my E71

[BillyBob]

I installed iSilo for Symbian on my Nokia E71 and it already works so I copy Thai Bible from my Pocket PC (PDB file) to E71 but it cannot read. It become weird text seems look like I have to change Font or something.

What I have to do that I can read thai on my E71? My E71 already can read Thai (like sms, web)

Please help. Thank you

[iSilo]

It sounds like an encoding problem. What is the encoding used by the document? Do determine this, open the document in iSilo and go to Menu/Tools/Document Information. On the Information screen, what does it give for the Text field?

[BillyBob]

It shows Text encoding : Unknown
I got this document from my friend and think he got from someone else too. What should I do??? Please help.

[iSilo]

The document does not specify its encoding which is why it shows unknown. Most likely it is using a Thai encoding, but iSilo does not have support for converting from any Thai encoding. The only way you will be able to view documents with Thai characters is if the encoding of the document is Unicode UTF-8. So to get that for your Thai bible, you would need the HTML source for the Thai bible and the source would need to be in Unicode. You would then use iSiloX to convert the HTML source to iSilo format. Since you say that you got the document from a friend who got it from someone else, you probably do not have access to the HTML source, so unless you can get access to the HTML source, unfortunately there is nothing that you can do.

[patrickwest]

I installed iSilo for Symbian on my Nokia E71 and it already works so I copy Thai Bible from my Pocket PC (PDB file) to E71 but it cannot read. It become weird text seems look like I have to change Font or something.

What program on the Pocket PC were you using to view this Thai Bible?

[BillyBob]

The document does not specify its encoding which is why it shows unknown. Most likely it is using a Thai encoding, but iSilo does not have support for converting from any Thai encoding. The only way you will be able to view documents with Thai characters is if the encoding of the document is Unicode UTF-8. So to get that for your Thai bible, you would need the HTML source for the Thai bible and the source would need to be in Unicode. You would then use iSiloX to convert the HTML source to iSilo format. Since you say that you got the document from a friend who got it from someone else, you probably do not have access to the HTML source, so unless you can get access to the HTML source, unfortunately there is nothing that you can do.

Thank you but I don't have HTML source. Is that possible to convert isilo format to HTML Source then convert back to Unicode UTF-8 again. Or IsiloX or any progam can convert PDB file with unknow Unicode to UTF-8 Unicode?

[BillyBob]

What program on the Pocket PC were you using to view this Thai Bible?

I used Pocket PC iSilo.