38. How can I view Hangul world wide web (WWW) pages under Windows (MS-Windows)?
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This article is from the Hangul & Internet in Korea FAQ, by Jungshik Shin jshin@minerva.cis.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.
38. How can I view Hangul world wide web (WWW) pages under Windows (MS-Windows)?
Under Hangul-capable environment as summarized below and dealt with in depth
in Subject 4, you should have little problem viewing Hangul Web pages in and
outside Korea. In case further help is necessary, you may post your question
to Hangul USENET Newsgroup(See Subject 24), han.comp.sys.ibmpc,
han.comp.hangul, or han.comp.www
o Any language version of MS Windows 95/NT + Hangul fonts(Unicode-based) +
Netscape 3.0/4.0 or MS Internet Explorer 3.0/4.0 For freely available
Hangul fonts, see Subject 4. Also, see Frank Tang's pages mentioned below
for details on Netscape and CJK fonts.
o MS Internet Explorer 3.0 or later or Netscape 4.0 or later for MS Windows
95/98 and NT 4.0 + int'l extension for Korean(Korean language pack, MS IE
4.0 add-on for Korean). See for details
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download (or
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download/addon.htm). Korean language
pack(Korean add-on) includes a set of truetype Korean fonts(Gulim and
Gulimche) to use for Korean web page viewing. In spring of 1998, MS
released IME(Input Method Editor) for East Asian Languages to work with
MS IE/OutLook Express. Now, it's renamed global IME with which Hangul
input is also possible in MS IE 4.0 and MS Outlook Express(but not in
Netscape) under any lang. version of MS-Windows NT/95/98. Global IME is
available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Ie/Features/ime.asp.
o MS Internet Explorer 2.0 or later + International Extension + Korean
Language support for MS IE 2.0 Int'l extension.( under MS Windows 95 and
NT 4.0 but not under MS Windows 3.1)
o Any Web browsers for Windows under Hangul Windows 3.1/Hangul Windows
95/NT
o Any Web browers for Windows + Hanme Hangul for Windows + MS-Windows
3.1(or Win 95 with HHW for Win95)
o Any Web browers for Windows + CJK Union Way + MS-Windows 3.1/95(MS
Internet Explorer doesn't work with Unionway,yet).
o Any Web browers for Windows + several Hangul viewers such as
NJWin,AsianView,Mview, and AsiaSurf(See Subject 4) + MS-Windows 95/3.1/NT
o Netscape 3.0 + Accent plug-in for Netscape by AccentSoft(
http://www.accentsoft.com) [Contribution by Charles Tustison at
hanmeint@wolfenet.com]
o Multilinguial Web browser Tango under any language version of Windows
3.1,95/NT. See http://www.alis.com/index.en.html
o WinTerm(hangul-transparent telnet client/terminal emulator for Windows)
to connect to a host and run text browsers like Lynx either over
serial/dial-up link or with direct net connection under three
Hangul-capable Windows environments.
o Most terminal emulators for Windows under any of three aforementioned
Hangul-capable Windows environments to run text browsers such as Lynx
over serial/dial-up link.
o Unix version of Netscape and other graphic web browsers to be run as an
X-client on a remote host for any X-server (e.g. MI/X which is free and
Micro-X and eXodus of which demo versions avaialble on the Net. Refer to
Subject 6 ·for details on X servers for MS-Windows. ) with Hangul fonts
under MS-Windows(3.1/95/NT) on a local host. You have to either install
Hangul X fonts on MS-Windows box or use font server with Hangul X fonts.
Refer to Subject 6 for free X hangul fonts.
o Hanterm to be run as a client on a remote host for any X-server (e.g.
Micro-X and eXodus) with Hangul fonts under MS-Windows(3.1/95/NT) on a
local host to use text browsers like Lynx.
o Hangul-capable-Emacs in W3 mode to be run as a client on a remote host
for any X-server with Hangul fonts under MS-Windows (3.1/95/NT) on a
local host.
Korean version of Netscape for MS-Windows 95/NT was released, Please, note
that it doesn't have built-in support for Hangul I/O, but rather depends on
Windows 95/NT for Hangul I/O. Thus, you still need Hangul version of Windows
95/NT or non-Korean Windows 95 + Hangul fonts(as included in MS IE Korean
language pack/int'l extension for Korean, Bitstream hangul font) and/or
Unionway/AsianView/NJWin or Hanme Hangul to view Korean web pages and/or
fill out forms in Korean(see Subject 4 for details on Hangul environment in
MS-Windows 95/NT/3.1) http://home.netscape.com/ko for updates in Hangul.
MS Internet Explorer 2.0 + International extension and 3.0/4.0 + Int'l
extension(now called language pack) for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 can display
Hangul web pages without support of Hangul on the OS level, so that Hangul
page may be displayed without Hangul MS-Windows 95/NT. (See above for where
to get them). According to Yi, Yeong Deug at queen@yes.snu.ac.kr, however,
Hangul font (Gulimche) that comes with Hangul add-on(Int'l extension for
Korean) doesn't contain Hanja. (this may not be the case any more with new
Korean language pack). To dislay Hanja, you may make use of fonts of Hanme
Hangul or Unionway if you have them.
In February, 1998, Microsoft released IME(Input Method Editor) for Korean
and Japanese, which makes it possible to input Korean and Japanese in MS
Internet Explorer 4.0 and MS Outlook Express running under any langauge
version of MS Windows 95/98 and MS Windows NT. You can download it at MS IE
web page at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Ie/Features/ime.asp. Newer
global IME(downloadable at the same site) supports traditional and
simplified Chinese as well.
Kang, Kyung-soo has been regularly posting an article in English (as well as
in Korean) explaining how to use Netscape and MS IE(including MS OE) under
non-Korean version of MS-Windows. It has a lot of details not fully
mentioned here so that you may wish to refer to his article. The easiest way
to read his article is go to Dejanews Power Search page and use the search
term ~g han.answers and ~a Kyung-soo
Installing MS IE Int'l extension for Korean(Korean
language pack) on any version of Windows NT
3.5x,4.0 and Windows 95/98(since it installs
Korean fonts) is reported to enable Netscape and
other browsers to display Hangul web pages. [
Contribution by Lee Kwang-Sug at
sam93@bubble.yonsei.ac.kr]. It also enables
Netscape 4.0x to display Hangul under Windows 95
as well as Windows NT according to Han, Seunghun
at han@finlandia.infodrom.north.de. Frank Tang at
Netscape has a web page
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/msfont.html)
explaining details on how to use MS Internet
Explorer Korean Extension to view Hangul web page
with Netscape 3.0 under MS Windows NT 3.5/4.0 and
Windows 95, which was kindly passed on to me by
Todd M. Jahng at jahng@oodis01.hill.af.mil. It
mentions about registry editing to use Unicode,
which may or may not be necessary depending on
which version of MS IE Korean extension you
installed. Moreover, turning 'Use Unicode' ON
might have a side-effect of Unionway, NJWin or
Asianview not working if they don't use Unicode
font. (At least Unionway comes with Unicode fonts
so that it's not supposed to be affected by this).
Frank Tang(ftang@netscape.com) also put up quite
useful information on viewing web pages in East
Asian languages with Netscape 4.0 (communicator)
at
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/communicatorfont.html.
Other page of your interest may be
http://home.netscape.com/eng/intl/ which deals
with Netscape internationalization issues and
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/3315/ with
some tips on browsing CJK pages in non-CJK
MS-Windows.
Whatever program/font(Hanme
Hangul,Unionway,NJWin,AsianView, MS Hangul font
from MS IE Korean extension) you use, you need to
set Document Encoding to Korean in Options(View
menu in Netscape 4.0x. Get Unionway build 1528 or
later for Netscape 4.0x if you want to use
Unionway although it can display Hangul without
Unionway if you have Hangul Unicode fonts as
included in MS Internet Explore Int'l
extension(Korean language pack) or distributed for
free by Bitstream) menu of Netscape and set fonts
for Korean to one of Hangul fonts you have in
Options|GeneralPreference|Font(Edit|Preference|Apperance|Font
in 4.0x) although in some cases Netscape can
display Hangul without these setting mainly due to
font-association feature of Unionway,
NJWin,HanmeHangul, and AsianView. Hanyang
fonts(Batang-che, see below) and Gulimche included
in MS IE Korean extension look pretty good.
Netscape 4.0x doesn't recognize non-Unicode Hangul
fonts included in Unionway and MS IE Korean
extension (Gulimche) and Hanyang Batangche. A
work-around by Seunghoon Han is set Encoding to
User-Defined in View|Encoding and set font for
User-Defined to one of Hangul fonts in
Edit|Preference|Font[posted to han.comp.hangul by
Han, Seunghoon at
han@finlandia.infodrom.north.de]. Problem with
this work-around is, however, header information
in your mail/news message is incorrectly set.
According to Frank Tang, this problem arises
because Netscape 4.0 (communicator) uses Unicode
fonts by default and fonts that comes with some
versions of Unionway and some old versions of MS
IE Korean extension(I think the newest version MS
IE Korean extension has Unicode fonts) and Hanyang
batang are not Unicode fonts. Thus,a much better
work-around than above is turn off an option to
use Unicode fonts as explained at
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/twinbridgeunionway.html.
You may edit registry for Netscape in Windows
95/NT and ini file in Windows 3.1. Look for
following item in registry
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Netscape\Netscape Navigator\INTL]
"Font4"="euc-kr,Times New Roman,12,Courier New,10,129,129"
and change it to
"Font4"="euc-kr,GulimChe,12,GulimChe,10,0,1" in Non-Korean Windows
"Font4"="euc-kr,GulimChe,12,GulimChe,10,129,0" in Korean Windows
[Posted by Yi, Yeong Deug at queen@yes.snu.ac.kr
to han.comp.hangul]
Font association feature of Hangul Windows gets in
the way of reading web pages in Western European
languages like French and German with Netscape.
(i.e. Even if you choose Western(Latin1) in
Options|Document Encoding, fonts for Hangul are
used in place of those for Western(Latin1)
character sets). A work around by Yi, Yeong Deug
is edit registry for font association as shown
below with registry editor. It may break Hangul in
menu of some programs, in which case you may
reverse the change. The same information with a
bit more background details is available at
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/europtype.html
(put on the web by Frank Tang).
Before the change
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\fontassoc\Associated
CharSet]
"ANSI(00)"="yes"
After the change
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\fontassoc\Associated
CharSet]
"ANSI(00)"="no"
Windows 95(and possiblely Windows NT) users may
download freely available(but not in public
domain) Hangul fonts for Web page design and web
browsing from Hanyang System at
http://www.hanyang.co.kr. The same set is
available for Unix/X window and they plan to offer
the same set of fonts for Windows 3.1 and Mac. You
may ask Hanyang system for a program to split a
ttc file to component ttf files in case you have
problem with installing ttc font in non-Korean
version of Windows 95/NT. A utility for breaking
ttc is now available at
http://www.hanyang.co.kr/BoMool.htm.
See Subject 4 for HanmeHangul,UnionWay and NJWin
which make it possible to read and/or write Hangul
in MS-Windows 3.1 and/or MS-Windows 95(and Windows
NT in case of Unionway Asian Suit for NT 3.51/4.0)
In case Hangul is broken in Java applet or
Javascript of Netscape, you may install patches
available at
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/navigator/3.01/windows/unidll.
[Contribution by Choi, SeongOok at
kakapapa@mail.hitel.net
Netscape 4.0b1 which claims to have full support
for Unicode 2.0 does NOT support Hangul as
specififed in Unicode 2.0(and KS C 5700). Instead,
it comes with now obsolete Hangul code in Unicode
1.2 that got obsolete with release of KS C 5700
and Unicode 2.0(See Subject 8 for Hangul code).
You may as well send a bug report to get Netscape
fix this grave bug as soon as possible.
[Contribution by Jung, Joowon at
jwjung@camis.kaist.ac.kr]
According to Kim, Deogtae at
dtkim@camars.kaist.ac.kr, Yoon, Kyung Koo at
yoonforh@interpia.net and Ken Lunde at
lunde@adobe.com, Java Development Kit(JDK) 1.1
support Hangul. native2ascii converts Korean in KS
C 5601(actually EUC-KR encoding) to
Unicode(network-byte order assumed). There is a
couple of bugs in conversion to Unicode from KS C
5601(EUC-KR encoding), though while the other way
around it works fine. Ken Lunde at Adobe kindly
informd me of the URL of the web page about JDK
1.1 I18N(
http://www.javasoft.com:80/products/jdk/1.1/intl/html/intlspecTOC.doc.html.
He also asked JavaSoft to support other
encodings(ISO-2022-KR and Johab) for Korean.
Kim, Do Hyung at dynaxis@adam.kaist.ac.kr has
reported another problem with Hangul support in
JDK. A bug of JDK 1.1 with Hangul input in
TextField and TextArea was fixed in JDK 1.1.1, but
a lot more serious problem has been introduced.
Now in 1.1.1, it's impossible to get Hangul input
using KeyEvent. Java is a relatively new language
still under vigorous revision and development, so
that there is ample room for Hangul support if we
exert conserted efforts.
Namo Interactive developed a Netsape plug-in for
viewing all Hangul syllabels(old and modern)
defined in KS C 5700. It works with Netscape
running under any language version of MS-Windows.
See http://www.namo.co.kr/ for details and
download information.
Those who use Netscape-Gold to edit Hangul html
documents should be extremely careful not to set
encoding to Western(Latin 1). Html files produced
with encoding set to Western are not legible by
most web browsers including MS Internet Explorer.
You must set encoding to Korean to edit Korean
html files. That's not only for MS IE users, but
is the right thing to do. Otherwise, your html
files would be not only invisible by many people
but also be ballooned to 3-4 times as large as
they would be with the correct setting.
Similarly(according to Kang Sungwon at
sungwon@rocketmail.com), NetObject Fusion users
have to turn ON the option "Skip High ASCII Set
Conversion" in Publish|Setting|Modify|HTML
generation menu.
MS FrontPage put the incorrect meta tag at the
beginning of html files edited with it. This
incorrect header makes your web pages invisible to
Netscape(4.05 or before) running under Mac and
Unix/X (and Netscape under MS-Windows, too if it's
configured to work around font association to
display Western Europeans correctly). You need to
either delete the meta tag in question or correct
it as shown below. In case you have to numerous
html files with this meta tag, you may find it
useful to get a small shell script I posted to
Usenet newsgroup han.comp.www.authoring. The
article can be looked up with the keywords "~g
han.comp.www.authoring and ~a jungshik and sed and
find and frontpage" at Dejanews Power Search
WRONG meta tag
--------------
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=ks
_c_5601-1987">
CORRECT meta tag
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=EU
C-KR">
A newer version of MS FrontPage has an option to
avoid this problem. In File|Page Properties, set
'Hangul' to <none> and 'encoding' to auto.[posted
by park0207@soback.kornet.ne.kr].
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