안녕하세요!

The typing issue that I’ve had in the past may be resolved. As expected, the cause of the problem/s turned out be fairly simple. It comes down to character encoding, the email application that I use, and a simple lack of understanding of the language.

The email application that I use, Mozilla’s Thunderbird, does not seem to be friendly to Asian languages. Or if it is then you have to do some annoying technical nonsense to make it work, and I simply don’t have the patience to do that these days.

Thunderbird would always prompt me when sending the email, asking if I wanted to send the email in UTF-8 or to send it in the existing encoding. Regardless of the option that I chose the Korean language would appear as odd, seemingly random symbols to the person reading the message.

I’ve found that the recipient can read the messages fine when I use the webmail interface to send email with Korean characters. So, it looks like I’ll have to do that rather than use Thunderbird. Of course I could also switch to MS Outlook, which I have, but then I would have to set up soooo many filters to route all of the mail that I get. What a pain.

The other problem was a simple lack of understanding of the language, which is to be expected so early in my studies of it. Speaking of this, though, our first quiz is this coming Wednesday. I’m actually looking forward to it! I’m kind of stoked because based on the review that we done I should be doing just fine on the quiz.

We’ll see, of course.

Later folks! Or as would be more appropriate for this post: 아녕히가세요!

Yeah, I’m enjoying this.

~Steph

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