[KS] Re: alternate circumflex methods

[John Harvey]

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    Actually, I suggested putting the caret (^) *after* the vowel.
Otherwise
you get "Inch'^on," and so forth, which is a bit much, I think.

----- Original Message -----
From: k u s h i b o <jdh95 at hitel.net>
To: <korean-studies at iic.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 9:12 AM
Subject: alternate circumflex methods

> Stephen Epstein wrote:
> > Btw, it's come to my attention that many users are unable to read the
> > circumflexed o's and u's that I send out, so I think I'll be using
> > capital letters instead in romanization from now on for KSR.  Ugly, but
> > I don't see much choice--unless I make the leap to the new gov't
> > transcription which hasn't exactly been something I've been planning
> > on.  Life is long, however, and many things are possible....
>
> My former boss at Sogang University, John Harvey, in the days before
> most
> computers could read the ô and the û on their computers, introduced
> me to a
> very simple solution to that problem. He would simply put the circumflex
> right before the vowel for which it was intended.