Thai Linux Working Group (TLWG; ) is a group of volunteers working on

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to support Thai language. The organization was founded in September 1998 with

NECTEC Thailand's National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) is a statutory government organization under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. Its ...

's support. In 1999, TLWG created MATEL (Mandrake and Thai Extension Linux). This Linux distribution eventually got renamed to

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. In 2006, source code created by TLWG has been moved to

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Projects

TLWG has created and continues to back several projects such as

, LibThai,

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. They also tweaked

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to support Thai language.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://linux.thai.net/
TLWG's official Github account
Information technology in Thailand Thai-language computing