[KS] Re: Using han'gul fonts

T.Han taehwan at hawaii.edu
Thu Nov 18 13:11:59 EST 1999


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?

Taehwan Han

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Charles Muller wrote:

> On Korean IME,
> 
> Joshua wrote:
> 
> > I beg to differ. The Global IMEs work just fine with Word 2000. Indeed,
> many
> > of the underlying components in the programs you mentioned are the same.
> 
> I was going to say the same sort of thing. I have used it a lot, and when
> there were occasional problems, it was always because a conflicting
> application (like another IME) was running at the same time. I haven't heard
> of any consistent problem such as was described.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Charles Muller
> 
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> 
> 
> > don't think it's appropriate for you to make such a blanket statement
> about
> > the functionality of the product based upon your own limited experience.
> As
> > I am sure everyone would agree, computers are rather complicated and it's
> > not so easy to say what the source of the particular problems you
> > experienced are. The kinds of problems you described are not the type that
> > would be caused by something like a Global IME, which is esentially just
> an
> > ActiveX control. It's more likely that the real source lies elsewhere --
> > maybe a bug in Word or Windows!
> >
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > > Microsoft's Korean IME works fine with Internet Explorer and Outlook
> > > Express. But it does not work with Word 2000 (Microsoft claims it does).
> I
> > > tried Korean IME with Word 2000. It worked fine for a while but caused
> > > serious problems later, corrupting my Word registry, causing an invalid
> > > page fault, etc. Therefore, I advise you not to use it with Word 2000,
> > > until Microsoft comes up with a fix. I have been using Twinbridge Korean
> > > Partner and, despite some problems (indirect input method, occasional
> loss
> > > of some characters), have been relatively satisfied with it. Hope this
> > > helps.
> > >
> > > Sunhyuk Kim
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 



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