Thai Text in FrameMaker 10

I have a Frame Maker 8 file, that I opened in FM 10, and the Thai text is not rendered properly whether I use Angsana (New / UPC), Tahoma, Arial Unicode MS or DB Thai.
This is what is look with Angsana (Some extra points are shown)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80063975@N03/7353219884/in/photostream
and with Arial MS Unicode (Incorrect spacing between some characters)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80063975@N03/7168009853/in/photostream
DB Thai font will just show question marks...
Any solution to this issue ?

I have a Frame Maker 8 file ...
Was the original font Unicode or legacy (code page overlay)?
With FM8, it could have been either.
If it's a legacy font, then you need to have that legacy font installed, as the code points for the glyphs are almost certainly different for Unicode.

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