A question for Jeana or …

[medo]

Hello Jeana,

Well, I have a question for you (or anybody else who knows the answer). I volunteered myself to set-up Multilanguage PCs for postgraduate students and there is no problem when it came to European languages, I can set-up the character set, dictionary and spell checking but when it comes to the Korean I had difficulties (I do not know Korean and ....). I can produce "characters" but I do not know if there is a spelling checker for Korean (there is no for Cantonese and Mandarin) and is there any dictionary for Korean as part of MS Office pack. Can you point me to any site, source or simply give me some additional advice. Thank you.
Any help is appreciated especially now during the break when there is no students from Korea to help me (until March).
OS = WIN2000 and Office 2000.

Thank you.

Medo

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[NDC]

To be able to use Korean Spell Checker, you're going to have to use a Korean version of MS Office along with a Korean version of Windows. You won't be able to use a Korean version of MS Office on an English Windows OS. You won't be able to see the title bar, nor will you be able to read any of the commands at the top of the window such as FILE, VIEW, EDIT, etc. They will all show up as ????? or some other signs rather than in readable Korean Font character. I had to learn that the hardway. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif As for just typing Korean Characters in an English Version of MS Office, that won't be a problem at all. You just won't be able to utilize "Spell Checker" and you won't be able to use Korean TTF even after you load them in the Windows Font folder on an English Version of Windows.

I ended up going back to Korean version of Windows despite the fact that I can't read and understand 100%, because my job requires full Korean Font functionality.

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[bdunn]

NDC is correct I ran into the same situation with Hebrew, only that I also needed to reverse the cursor direction, and resolved it by going to Hebrew windows at home. My hebrew is okay, not great but to do what I wanted it was the only way to go.

[medo]

Hello,

Thank you for your replay but I "think" there must be some other way. I will wait for a while.


Medo

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[medo]

Hello,

I am still waiting; it was bad timing for me because she is away, I hope in week or two she will be back (pushing on the top).

Medo

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[medo]

Hello,

OK, with the help from Asian students I solved the Korean language problem and finally managed to set-up a model PC with 9 languages (English, German, Italian, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Russian, Korean, traditional and simplified Chinese + Japanese).
Windows2000 and Office2000 is a great tool.
All languages have spell/grammar checking (Far East language symbols work on a little bit of a different principle and consequently spell checking too) and some of the languages have English-local and local - English dictionary.
Switching between languages is simple - Alt+Shift.

Medo

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[NDC]

Have you tried installing a program that wasn't English on the English Windows? If so, how does he program title bar appear?

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[medo]

Hello NDC,

The system is an English version of WIN2000 (+ Office2000 and multilingual CDs pack from Office2000) and the menu bars appear in English, but you can have a few options like - help and menu on local language (Word and Outlook + other parts of package) or only help on local language + few bars on local language. For Far East languages I installed a dictionary (Korean and Chinese - Mandarin) and an additional menu bar on local language (IME settings) + soft keyboard if someone wants to use.
In reality, you have to have the main/default language (English) because if I install Serbian as a default than all others will have to know Serbian in order to use other main menus.
Sorting and find was adjusted for Far East languages and there are in use when you choose Far East languages.

Medo

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[NDC]

I see, I was trying to use a Korean program on the Win2K English version and was unable to read anything from the Korean program. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif