Thailex Travel Encyclopedia
Thailex is a celebration of the richness of the Orient. With over
9,000 inputs and over 11,000 pictures, it goes beyond where any dictionary or guidebook will take
you. Though it initially focuses on Thailand, it has over time expanded its horizon
well beyond those political borders, to the larger contiguous area of
the Far East, including much of Southeast Asia, as well as South
and East Asia, especially
with regards to wildlife.


The Author
Thailex
is entirely and single-handedly written, translated and
composed by
Yves Masure, who
studied
Thai at the Institute of Languages
of the
Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok,
in addition to
several modern and classical languages,
including English, French, German and
Norwegian (Bokmål). He also
mastered to read and write the
Devanagari
script used for Sanskrit and Hindi, as well as
the Lao and Khmer (Cambodian) scripts and
some
Chinese (Mandarin).
As
an independent scholar and
a
former student of
theology with an interest in exegesis and history, he
also
gained an in-depth
knowledge of classical and oriental literature as an autodidact, and studied
Greek (Koine)
at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven and
Hebrew (Aramaic)
at the
Theologicum
of the
Diocesan Seminar
in Antwerp, both in
Flanders,
Belgium.
Yves
has travelled and lived in
Southeast Asia since 1993 and Thailex is the result of
over two decades of travel, research, translation
and archiving.
Copyright
All lay-out, text and
illustrations* in this work are the property of Thailex and
Yves Masure,
and protected by copyright. No part of this work may
be copied, reproduced or electronically saved without prior and explicit
permission of the owner. By starting the Thailex DVD or opening the
supporting website,
the user accepts and is bound by these conditions. *For
illustrations scanned
from
Thai postage stamps, of which the ultimate and exclusive rights belong to
Thailand Post, Co. Ltd.,
permission
has been granted.

Important Notice
WINDOWS & ANDROID
Thailex is best viewed in Windows and with Microsoft Internet Explorer. The use of any other browser
may result in an incorrect display
of the lay-out and/or a flawed navigation. Thailex has been designed with
Windows FrontPage and to some extend with Dreamweaver, yet some of the
pages, bookmarks and pictures are tagged with names in Thai script. Those
are all supported and work fine when using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
APPLE & IPHONE (IOS)
To ensure correct navigation when using the Apple iPhone
or MacBook it is advised to use the browser Chrome or Firefox. If browsing
with Safari on MacBook the Text Encoding should be changed to Thai (Windows), which
can be done in the View section on the Menu Bar, by extending the last entry
of the drop down list. However, this option is not available on iPhone and
when the browser is left in Default or any other setting, hyperlinks
referring to bookmarks containing Thai script will only go to the page
referred to and not the
intended bookmark on the page. Hence, if you
are experiencing any of the aforementioned problems, either change the
settings or try using another browser or operation system.
OTHER BROWSERS/OS
Using an alternative browser or operation system may result in
certain
features, such as hyperlinks, not working properly, whilst some operational features, such as those needed for interactive maps,
automated data-tags, and videos, may not be supported. If available, the browser's Text Encoding is best changed to Thai (Windows) if
any navigation or display problems occur. Otherwise, try using Chrome,
Firefox, or, for the best results, the Windows OS with Microsoft
Internet Explorer, so you can fully enjoy Thailex and
its content.
HIGH RESOLUTION
DISPLAY/HIGH DPI
When using a computer with a high resolution (high DPI)
display, the layout, pictures and text, especially on Windows laptops, may
appear tiny and illegible due to the densely packed pixels. This can swiftly
be fixed either by simply
giving the command
Ctrl+0, or by zooming in manually by clicking the keys Ctrl+ until the
desirable size and view has been reached. For a proper text rendering the
Text size in the View option of the Menu bar should be set at Medium.