Talk:The National Scout Organization of Thailand

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[edit] Mandatory participation

The reason I placed the "citation needed" marker is because Scout associations _may_not_ be mandatory, else they will lose their WOSM recognition. Several countries have lost their membership due to that. Apparently Gerakan Pramuka in Indonesia started off nationalist and mandatory, and absorbed an earlier Scout association. Chris 23:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I put this there because I have seen this in Thailand when I've been there, several times. It's also what my wife, who is a native Thai, told me. I'll ask for clarification. Given what you said, right now, my guess is that it's more like "participation in a youth group" is mandatory, yet most choose Scouts. Also, I'll see if she, her friends, or family get me more info on Thai Scouting so I can expand this article.Rlevse 14:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thai script

It would be cool to have at least the name of the organization in Thai script. Chris 03:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea how to get foreign scripts into wiki, unless you do it with a photo. Rlevse 11:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, that's just copy and paste. Since Wikipedia uses UTF-8 most scripts do work without further extensions. --jergen 13:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

but how do you type on your keyboard to generate the script, or do you need a Thai keyboard to do that? So, if you find said script on a web site somewhere, you just copy and paste it and it will work under UTF-8? Rlevse 13:55, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't know how to type Thai, but there is software emulating a Thai keyboard [1].

Here, I just copied the script from the Thai Scouting website and pasted it into the article. Using the preview I saw that this worked ;-) But there are some alphabets that need further installing eg the Khmer script. --jergen 16:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)