Thai characters

Hi,
I use Indesign 7.0.3 on a mac running osx 10.6.7.
I have a text using thai characters in Lucida Grande font, the thai characters are drawn (and print) as empty boxes but if I copy-paste the thai characters they are ok :
khun phouying    คุณผู้หญิง (on the screen I have something like 'khun phouying    ▢▢▢▢▢▢')
The idml export is ok too :
            <CharacterStyleRange AppliedCharacterStyle="CharacterStyle/$ID/[No character style]">
                <Properties>
                    <AppliedFont type="string">Lucida Grande</AppliedFont>
                </Properties>
                <Content>คุณผู้หญิ</Content>
            </CharacterStyleRange>
The Lucida Grande font is active, I can add glyphs and see them, but they do not copy-paste (some of them were between 'khun' and 'phouying' is the previous paste) and the idml export is as :
            <CharacterStyleRange AppliedCharacterStyle="CharacterStyle/$ID/[No character style]" OTFContextualAlternate="false">
                <Properties>
                    <AppliedFont type="string">Lucida Grande</AppliedFont>
                    <CustomGlyph type="string">$ID/sosalathai</CustomGlyph>
                </Properties>
                <Content>�</Content>
            </CharacterStyleRange>
What can I do to get the thai characters drawn correctly ?
Regards,
Lionel

Hi,
I have been able to solve the problem using another font with thai characters (Garuda for instance from ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/thailinux/software/thai-ttf/ I have found the link in http://www.wazu.jp/ )
The problem is only with the Lucida Grande font.
Lionel

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