[KS] Re: Using han'gul fonts

[T.Han]

I am not sure this is related question. May be asking you guys are faster
than wating for an answer from MS. I am using English Windows 98 an try to
change to Korean Windows 98. Should I use upgrade CD or original program
CD? I used one of CDs it told me 'charater set is missing' in my system.
Do you have any idea how to do it?

T. Han

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Joshua Margolis wrote:

> It's good that you're satisfied with Unionway. I still don't feel that the
> quality is on par with Korean Windows, however. I suppose it comes down to a
> matter of personal preference.
> 
> I think the problem with not being able to view Web sites properly is
> several-fold. First, Netscape simply doesn't handle foreign language content
> as well as Internet Explorer in terms of autodetecting the proper character
> set and displaying it. Second, too many designers of pages containing
> non-English content either fail to include the proper HTML meta tag
> specifying the correct character set to use, or far worse, they specify an
> English character set by default when the content isn't in English.
> 
> Regarding Hanme, I think you seem to be confused. I'm not talking about
> Hancom Office 97, which includes HWP. I'm talking about an add-on for
> English Windows by a company called Hanmesoft (www.hanmesoft.co.kr). I just
> checked their Web site and indeed there hasn't been an update since version
> 3.0b.
> 
> I don't think that one has to resort to trial and error on a multilingual
> platform. One has every right to expect as much as on a monolingual
> platform, if not more. Korean Windows 98 works very well. I've been using it
> since the day it came out and used Korean Windows 95 before that. I'm not
> aware of any glitches in the Korean version that don't exist in the English
> one. Windows 2000 is even better. Even the current beta version of Windows
> 2000 is rated 10 times more stable than Windows 98 and 28 times more stable
> than 95. Nearly all 30,000 of Microsoft's employees are already using it and
> despite the exhorbitant price, I'll certainly upgrade when the final version
> comes out in February. I only wish Microsoft would sell the Multilingual
> version (the only difference between the Multilingual version and whatever
> localized version you may use is that the Multilingual version allows you to
> change the default code page and language of the user interface on the fly)
> at retain instead of solely through its volume licensing program.
> 
> 
> Josh
> 
> > >I think Unionway is really designed for Chinese rather than Korean or
> > >Japanese. I never really thought it was a very good choice for adding
> > >Han'gul support.
> >
> > Actually I am using Unionway already for quite some time, with a lot of
> > satisfaction. The only thing you should not forget to do is when you can't
> > read a Korean Site in Netscape (and explorer too for that matter) is take
> a
> > look at the view --> character set. Just start up Unionway once, and close
> > it again (don't forget to install the fonts as well. After that you can
> > close it again and as long as the character set is well defined, you can
> > read Korean sites. Sometimes you just have to try to change back and forth
> > between character set Korean and Western languages, but it works to my
> > satisfaction. It's sometimes just a matter of trial and error.
> >
> > >I did want to add one thing, though, in case anyone was considering it as
> > >an option. Assuming there has been no update since version 3.0b, do NOT
> > >purchase Hanme Hangul for Windows 95.
> >
> > There's already a version 97.
> >
> > Works fine with me too, I developed the Korean version of my site with it.
> > Again with a lot of trial and error, but you don't have any choice on a
> > multi-lingual platform.
> >
> > Korean windows 98 seems to work fine too, aside from the glitches 98 US
> has
> > as well and a minor few more. But it works definitely better than 95.
> >
> > My few won worth,
> >
> > Pace
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > Henny  (Lee Hae Kang)
> 
> 
> 



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