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Apple¡¯s newly released web browser for Windows is pie-in-the-sky for Korean users since it fails to display Korean characters properly. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first Windows version of Safari on Monday to huge international hype.
Safari 3.0, a version of the Macintosh browser that runs on the Windows PC operating system, directly challenges rival Microsoft¡¯s Internet Explorer. Apple claims Safari operates much faster than competitors such as IE 7 and Firefox. Apple offered a free download of the beta version of Safari on its website on the day.
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Safari 3 promoted on Apple's website. /apple.com
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When the Chosun Ilbo reporter installed Safari 3 on the Windows XP PC, it operated perfectly when displaying web pages in English, and there were no great problems with Japanese and Chinese text except with the play of some Flash files.
But there is a critical problem for Safari: it has trouble seeing Korean text on web pages. When we entered ¡°chosun.com¡± in the address box of Safari, the Korean text was not displayed correctly. We then chose ¡°text encoding¡± from the view menu, but the browser failed to recognize it. No matter what encoding we chose, Korean characters were not displayed.
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The chosun.com page displayed by Apple¡¯s new Safari web browser for Windows.
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The Naver web page displayed by Apple¡¯s new version of its Safari web browser for Windows OS.
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A software programmer says Apple does not appear to support Korean encoding technology since there are relatively few Macintosh users in Korea. One netizen commented sarcastically, ¡°Apple was brave to release this beta version of the web browser. If Microsoft were in Apple¡¯s shoes, it would come under heavy fire.¡±
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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