Korean Font in Word v.X

[JDLEE]

I'm using a Powerbook G4 1 MHz with Jaguar 10.2.8. When I use the
Korean font input in Word, the Korean characters display fine.
However, when I press the "spacebar" to insert a space in the text, a
huge tab is displayed. I don't understand why it does this.

 

[Randy Wilson]

I'm using a Powerbook G4 1 MHz with Jaguar 10.2.8. When I use the
Korean font input in Word, the Korean characters display fine.
However, when I press the "spacebar" to insert a space in the text, a
huge tab is displayed. I don't understand why it does this.

Microsoft Word apparently cannot properly display Korean fonts. It is
confused and thinks that each Korean syllable is twice as wide as it
really is. The syllables within each word are displayed correctly,
but there is an equal amount of empty space after the word as the word
itself took up. I wish I knew who at Microsoft to contact to get this
bug fixed.

 

[Gene van Troyer]

(e-mail address removed) (JDLEE) wrote in message


Microsoft Word apparently cannot properly display Korean fonts. It is
confused and thinks that each Korean syllable is twice as wide as it
really is. The syllables within each word are displayed correctly,
but there is an equal amount of empty space after the word as the word
itself took up. I wish I knew who at Microsoft to contact to get this
bug fixed.

Randy,

Office X for Mac does not support Korean or Chinese, just Japanese. You can
sort of get Word to do Chinese via the Japanese Typography tools, but the
Hangul syllabary seems to be beyond the capabilities of the Japanese
Typography Tools.

You might find some help here:

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac

Chinese Mac is what it says, but there is some information and links for
Japanese and Korean as well.

Gene van Troyer

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Randy:

The people at Microsoft have already solved the problem. I think you will
find that the next version of Office works with Korean correctly.

In fact, I think you will find that it works properly with EVERYTHING EXCEPT
right-to-left languages, which are not yet supported by OS X.

Sorry: Multilingual Unicode support is a massive change. It's not the sort
of thing a company can afford to retro-fit to software. "Any fool with a
compiler can make software: making a profit is a whole different ballgame!"

Hope this helps

This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on 29 Nov 2003 13:53:58
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