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MSIE 6.0, I see boxes.

I can't see it in either Mozilla Firebird or IE 6. Windows XP, tho.

I'm seeing Asian characters all over the place. Safari Public Beta 2 (v73) on Mac OS X 10.2.6.

I'm using the same Unicode hack on a two-months-from-going-live project I've started working on -- not for the Asian glyphs, though -- so I'm interested to see what does and doesn't work.

I suspect it's font-related: if you don't have Asian fonts installed, you (obviously) can't see Asian fonts on your web browser. Since everything from Korean to Thai comes bundled in OS X, Mac users won't have to think about this; others may have to download language packs. But that's just a guess.

I'm unable to see the Korean characters at emptybottle.org or over at glome.org. I see only boxes.

I'm running Win 2k with IE 6.0.2600.0000 (if the full version number is of any help to you).

I only see question marks. I presume this is because I haven't installed Asian fonts, but then I don't know how to install fonts (and may not be able to do so on my work computer anyway). Ah well.

Oh, for what it's worth, I'm running IE5 on an iMac.

I only see question marks. I presume this is because I haven't installed Asian fonts, but then I don't know how to install fonts (and may not be able to do so on my work computer anyway). Ah well.

Oh, for what it's worth, I'm running IE5 on an iMac.

Any modern browser (IE, Mozilla, etc.) should be able to show Asian characters, provided they are encoded correctly (and Stavros is doing it right with UTF-8) and the user has East Asian fonts installed.

I think that the second issue is the one that is getting everyone.

BTW, I find Hangul fascinating. I've been learning Chinese for years now, and I love it, but I think the concepts behind the Korean writing system are totally cool.

Mr. Chicken, I see question marks, here at emptybottle and at the linked site.
I'm using Netscape 6.2.1, which is probably used only by little old ladies who knit.

I can see it just fine in IE6, Moz 1.4b and Opera 7 on a Win98SE system.

Cool, man. :) It looks like it's working well for you, but a lot of the posters just don't have the fonts installed...

I believe that IE in windows should be able to automatically prompt the user to download the proper language packs, but they can also just select them through the windows update service, and install them that way.

And, as someone mentioned, OSX has Japanese, Korean, and simplified and traditional Chinese installed by default. :)

I can see it just fine in Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.3 on Win XP, but I've had East Asian fonts installed for quite some time -- for Chinese websites. I think it may be a question of whether you have the East Asian Font packs installed.

The Korean characters are displaying very well indeed on my laptop running XP and IE 6.

I see them fine on Mozilla/Win XP. For those that don't know, XP uses Unicode on the operating system level, so East Asian fonts (for viewing and for typing) are a very prominent in the installation and the control panel.

Older MS OSs need special language packs or input method editors for the browser.

I agree with the mob. The UTF employment is good. The problem is correcting anglocentric client software.

But I have a thought, can I comment in Korean?

한국말하세요?

대한미국 화이팅!

미국 ë°í†µë ¹ì´ 바보입니다.

[And other expat stock phrases...]

Glunk. Question marks here and on Mr Hill's site I'm afraid, Stav. Moz1.0.2/Mac/OS9.2. I think it's probably that I don't have the fonts; any ideas where I could get 'em?

Looks fine in IE 5.1.6 on Mac OS 9.2.2. Having the fonts installed is key, even for an OS Luddite such as myself.

Thank you for appearing like a comet in my link cosmos! I would love to incorporate Asian languages into the Blogalization Conspiracy, if you know of anyone who would be interested in cross-blogging (open posts, but I need someone to localize Asian-language templates). The problem is that the rest of the blogging world already speaks English or French or whatnot, so memes don't get transferred.

The trick is text entry. I have been having fits because most Arabic Web sites are Windows-1256 and my site is Unicode. Were you able to enter UTF-8 Korean characters using a regular Korean text entry method, like a localized version of Word?

Yes, that's what I do with Arabic, using UniPad, which I highly recommend. IE4+, Netscape 4+, Mozilla, and recent builds of Opera are all Unicode-enabled browsers, btw. I think. I can't seem to find the reference. Ah, here.

For Mac OS 9 you ned to install the language kits. They're on your original install discs - do a custom install.

I see both the pic for grapes and the korean font. I am XP Pro Home ED., IE 6, plus, just yesterday I installed an Internation Keyboard - downloaded from Microsoft website
the following: imekor and ie_ko executables, rebooted and bango, able to read and write in Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Messenger, email and Word. I got it for my wife, she is Korean. I attempted to study it but it is as bad as Chinese or Japanese - and people say English is the hardest language - well, to me it isn't, I grew up here in USA. I am sure English would be hard if I grew up in Korea.

Works for me in Mozilla Firebird 0.7 , although Firebird sometimes mistakes Korean for Japanese.
btw, J Moon- 미국 ë°í†µë ¹ì´ 브시 입니다-- '바보가' ë°í†µë ¹ì„ 안입니다.

Works for me in Mozilla Firebird 0.7 , although Firebird sometimes mistakes Korean for Japanese.
btw, J Moon- 미국 ë°í†µë ¹ì´ 브시 입니다-- '바보가' ë°í†µë ¹ì„ 안입니다.