[KS] Re: Using han'gul fonts

[Henny Savenije]

At 03:11 AM 11/19/99 , you wrote:

>I once sent a hwp (Arae-a Hangul 2.5 file) file to a person who is using
>Word 2000 and the Global IME. He could not read my file, so I had to send
>it again in text file (oansong hyong). Yes, he could read it. Is there any
>way he can read my hwp file under word 2000 with the Global IME?

No.

I tried it in a zillion ways, but it's not possible, they're just 
incompatible. The only thing you can indeed do is send is as a text file.

The biggest problem with sending Korean email is that there are no 
standards yet. Sometimes a provider will send it in 8 bits format while the 
receiver receives it in 7 bit format. All the Korean (or Chinese, Japanese) 
characters will be gone and only the question marks, dots, comma's and the 
like come through. I have done some testing and indeed I couldn't receive 
Korean email from Yahoo and Hotmail accounts, while I could do it if I send 
the same mail to myself. Obviously the biggest providers of free email are 
using a different format than the other providers while 7bits is the 
official standard. A work around  is that one sends the email as a txt 
(text) attachment. In that case, routers and providers will leave the 
attachments untouched and thus readable.

Also one needs to be aware of the software the receiver has installed. So 
before sending attachments one needs to ask in what format the receiver can 
handle the mail. Then one has to send it in the format the other party can 
recognize: *.doc for word, *.hwp for the different versions of Hangul, 
*.wpd for WordPerfect, *.gif and *.jpg for many picture editors, but not 
all, *.bmp for all users, but big in file size. (the same picture in jpg 
[jpeg] and bitmap [bmp] can differ sometimes a factor 10 in size, jpeg 
being the smallest, depending if one compressed it or not, jpeg has the 
possibility to compress it WITH the picture software one is using, not with 
winzip or the like). And above all, don't send Korean email as formatted 
text (switch of the tag "send as html") since that is also the cause of 
major problems.

So DON'T send pdf files if one is not sure that the other party is using 
Acrobat reader ;-)

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