[KS] Old Hangul fonts for Mac

[Frank Hoffmann]

Donald Baker wrote:

> (…) "area a" (…)  
> It's Unicode U + 318D There's another one at U + 119E
> However, I can't figure out how to  insert the area a into the usual 
> syllable format. Does anyone else know? 

Where do all those incredible typos suddenly come from, that's my 
question. Must be Unicode ::)
Okay, about Professor Baker's question, and this may be of interest to 
some of those working with Old Korean (by the way, would be great if 
*some* Korean terms--such as "area a"--would not be translated … 
thanks).

You can type Old Korean on the Mac, of course, but you do need a 
keyboard driver to help you for the input.
Now you can either create your own one, which is pretty simple, really, 
just that it will keep you busy for half a day … and in that case 
please download the below program--the best there is for such purpose, 
and at the same time the easiest one to use:
http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele
And this can also be used to edit an existing keyboard driver (!) by 
simply importing that and editing it … in case you just want to 
re-assign a few keys the way you need them.

Or, alternatively, download the "Hanulim" (version 2.2) keyboard driver 
from 2008 which includes a so-called "Dubeol Archaic" keyboard driver.
http://code.google.com/p/hanulim/downloads/list
After de-compressing the downloaded ZIP file, you will see a file named 
"Hanulim." Push this "Hanulim" file into the folder "Input Methods" 
(which is a sub-folder of "Library" (which is directly on your hard 
drive). See the image below:
  
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You may have to reboot your Mac, not sure (but better you do). After 
that, go to the Apple menu, to "System Preferences" and there to 
"Language & Text" and click onto the "Input Sources" tab. Now make sure 
to put a checkmark in front of the box "Dubeol Archaic." It will then 
appear at the usual spot, upper right of your screen. See image below:
  
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Since these "Hanulim" keyboard drivers were last updated in 2008 for OS 
10.5, the "Keyboard Viewer" will not work with them if you are under OS 
10.8 (Lion), so you will have to try things out. Otherwise it works, as 
far as I can tell. If there are problems, try using the above mentioned 
"Ukelele" editor (first link in this message), import it, and then save 
as Lion compatible version, that should work. (I have little use to 
write Old Korean, haven't tried it.)


Best,
Frank


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Frank Hoffmann
http://koreaweb.ws