[KS] Middle Korean fonts (Thorsten Traulsen)

[Thorsten Traulsen]

Dear Jay,

for a long time I used New Batang (새바탕) in my Middle Korean related word documents which covered every syllable block I needed including Tongguk chôngûm spellings with the exception of one or two (can’t remember which one but it was a very rare non-standard combination) plus kugyôl and many "Korean hancha“. I had no problems with that until 2017 when MS Word on my then new Apple computer refused to display New Batang and made me switch to Apple Pages instead. 

In addition, there is the coding problem. New Batang as well as the very similar HaanSoft Batang are based on the old proprietary Korean coding while Noto is based on Unicode and thus should work on all platforms and programs. I recently switched to Noto and started to convert my old files - passage by passage - into Noto/Unicode by means of this online tool which also serves as an input device:

https://xn--gt1b.xyz/oko/
However, my MS Word under Apple OS still has problems displaying the premodern nasal ㆁ ‹​ŋ <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimmhafter_velarer_Nasal>​› (not ㅇ) in syllable final position so I stick with Apple Pages. I guess it may work just fine on MS computers. All other premodern syllables are displayed correctly now even in Word-on-Apple.

Maybe the easiest way for you would be to add New Batang if the editor wants to stick to Batang. 

Feel free to ask me directly for anything more specific.

Best,
Thorsten



 

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