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

[Michael Prentice]

Hello all,

Having just made the switch to El Capitan, I can relay that the free
third-party software I have been using for a few years, called Karabiner
<https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/>, works fine. The software re-designates
keys, creating a Korean layout on a non-Korean computer, and seems to have
no overt problems in El Capitan. (It can do one-key 한문/영문 switching and 漢字
selecting.)

Best,
Mike

-- 
Michael Prentice
Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
mprentic at umich.edu

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Baker, Edward <ejbaker at fas.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
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