[KS] Mac Users / Korean: WARNING! (Update to OS X El Capitan)—CORRECTED VERSION, IF POSTED PLEASE DELETE THIS NOTE AND USE THIS VERSION. ED

[Baker, Edward]

Dear All,

Thank you, Frank, for the warning about updating to El Capitan. I do use 한글 과 漢字 on my MacBook and would really be upset to lose them. It would be great if we could all try to 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