[KS] old MS Word / Korean font question

[Frank Hoffmann]

Thanks, Professor Janelli. It seems the issue you had and solved was 
less severe (seems not to apply here).
I am almost convinced now that there seems no way to convert old MS 
Word texts WITH East Asian fonts saved in MS Word 6 or other 1990s 
versions under OS 7, 8, or 9 on a new Mac.

Up to Mac OS X.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac still would run Rosetta, a piece 
of binary translator software that allowed to emulate the old PowerPC 
processor applications on new Intel-based Mac hardware. In other words, 
we could run a virtual "Classic" OS like Mac OS 9, and *older* 
applications would just automatically open under that virtualized OS. 
Older MS Word texts with CJC fonts, created in the 1990s, would thus be 
available. Since Mac OS X.7 (Lion) Rosetta is gone, and so this is 
impossible now. 

It seems the only way to convert old texts (again, the problem are just 
the Asian fonts), would be to somehow create PDF files *on* an old OS 
7, 8, or 9 system. ... But I am even not sure if those would then be 
readable (with correct display of Asian fonts). ... I believe though, 
that those old MS Word versions did not have the "Save as PDF" function 
build in.

Thanks.
Frank


On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:13:48 +0000, Janelli, Roger L. wrote:
> Dear Frank,
> 
> I’ve experienced a similar problem and found that inserting a single 
> Korean letter at the start of a word converts the whole word to 
> Hangeul. Then the inserted latter can be removed.
> 
> Beat,
> Roger 
> 
> 
> On Nov 13, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Frank Hoffmann 
> <hoffmann at koreanstudies.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear All:
>> 
>> A quick question:
>> On the Mac I mostly used "AppleMyungjo" in the 1990s, and a font of 
>> that name is still present now in the latest OS (X.9). But I only see 
>> scrambled text like this: ãÛ≠ å´ßÔ
>> 
>> The problem seems to occur because of the Unicode conversion, I think. 
>> No interest to research that, just looking for a practical solution. 
>> Does anyone know of a way to convert old MS Word texts using 
>> AppleMyungjo or similar old CJK fonts so the characters show again?
>> 
>> Did you experience the same problem on Windows PCs?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best,
>> Frank
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> Frank Hoffmann
>> http://koreanstudies.com
> 

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