[KS] Korean typewriters
Stefan Ewing
sa_ewing at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 19 16:46:01 EDT 2006
Dear KS list members:
Not to detract from the seriousness of Bell's Palsy or the other weighty
matters of late, but I have an off-topic question--one that has long stumped
me and that I have not been able to answer. I suspect some of you may be
able to help out.
How did Korean (or more precisely, Hangeul/Han'gu^l) typewriters work?
How did a typist move from one syllable to the next--by tapping the space
bar? (More than once to move to the next word?) And how did he or she
place a consonant within a syllable (up or down)--by simply adjusting the
carriage up or down, or was there a more automated way to do this (perhaps
with the shift key)? Did different typewriters or different keyboard
arrangements carry out these tasks in different manners?
Having just seen a picture of an old manual Korean typewriter and being
reminded of this vexing issue, I must throw this question out so I won't lie
awake at night trying to figure it out!
Yours sincerely (sincerely!),
Stefan Ewing
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