[KS] Mac Users / Korean: WARNING! (Update to OS X El Capitan)

[Baker, Edward]

Dear Frank,

Thanks for the warning about updating to El Capitan. I do use 한글 과 漢字 and would really be upset to lose them. If you’re in a position to keep track of this, it would be great if we could a;; keep each other  informed of what is happening with this.

Thanks,

Ed


> On Sep 30, 2015, at 12:32 AM, Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreanstudies.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All:
> 
> A good number of you might use Macs.
> This is my warning to you to NOT to update to the new Mac OS X "El 
> Capitan," to be released in a few hours. "El Capitan" (10.11)  follows 
> the present "Yosemite." Unless you hear otherwise and have confirmed 
> that below issues have been fixed, I strongly suggest to wait with any 
> update -- that is, if you also use Han'gŭl and Hanja in your texts.
> 
> I have not see the FINAL release, only the last pre-release (last 
> public beta). But there is no indication, no note anywhere that these 
> issues are fixed.
> 
> In many of your programs (applies to all Microsoft Office programs such 
> as MS Word, both MS Word for Mac 2011 and the new Word 2016) you 
> (a) get problems writing more than one syllable in Han'gŭl ... the 2nd 
> syllable will of a word will show some bogus letters (so you have to 
> delete that, and re-write that 2nd syllable as if it where the first of 
> a word)
> (b) Hanja does not work at all in MS Word and Office programs (and 
> many other programs) 
> (c) when opening an existing text with Han'gŭl and/or Hanja and then 
> save that (e.g. after an edit), you will find irreversible 
> (un-correctable), unwanted spaces after NUMBERS; for example: "2015 年" 
> instead of "2015年"
> 
> In other older and very new program versions this all works fine, but 
> as I mentioned, not so in MS Word, Excel, and others. It may thus be a 
> smart idea to wait with any OS update until you know this has been 
> fixed.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Frank
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Frank Hoffmann
> http://koreanstudies.com