Thanks for your help.
The background to my post is that I'm developing a brochure for an English school in Thailand. The text is in both English and Thai. I did a prototype in English but when I came to type in Thai in the Story Editor, after changing to the Thai keyboard, nothing appeared there and the cursor did not move.
I can't read or write Thai either, my Thai colleague does that. But at the moment, we're stuck at the point of not being able to enter Thai text.
Regarding the Thai patch, after following the download instructions and doing a sudo apt-get update in the terminal, I got the following message
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/clubuntu/scribus-thai/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/clubuntu/scribus-thai/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
I guess I should take this up with the developers, I mentioned it here in the hope that somebody might be familiar with it, nevermind, no problem.
I checked that my Thai keyboard setting in ubuntu 11.10 was actually working with LibreOffice. It is, the Thai is displayed OK. There is also the issue of fonts. LibreOffice displays the various Thai fonts we've loaded well. If Scribus had this functionality, we would, both of us, be very contented users. Rest assured, we are pretty impressed by it, we just need this Thai functionality if it's possible

regards
Roy