I am in the process of writing this essay, and I often times I have need to use some text in Korean Hanguel (한글) and Chinese Characters (漢字). The problem I am running into is that I unable to select the fonts I want. I select a font like Kai or a font like 华文楷体, but some characters remain in a different font and seem fixated. （See Image below with missing glyphs highlighted in yellow)
In doing some initial research, I suspect the problem can be partially with Microsoft Mac team, in handling of fonts, formatting as well as documenting the behavior, and a problem with either the Mac's font system and/or the fonts themselves. It is the ultimate collision of bugs or behaviors on many fronts, but in the end, the result is a partially functional Office on Mac OS X.
Professionally, if there is a need to do word processing with Asian text, I would be hesitant to recommend MS Word 2008 and Mac OS X as the solution, because there are just too many issues to make the solution viable.
One issue is that Apple still hasn't offered Chinese character support for Korean input systems, and it seems that this extremely annoying auto-switch the input method feature that can't figure out which language one is using; after all Chinese characters can be used in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean*, so a cursor at a Chinese character could be any of these languages.
* Usage of Chinese characters, called Hanja (한자), is often disdained by those of Korean ultra-nationalist ideology because there is a feeling that using Chinese characters represents cultural subjugation toward Chinese culture, despite the fact that literature, history, writing before WWII, famous works, Confucian and Seon Buddhist and other ideologies, etc. made heavy usage of Chinese characters, and that the Korean language (as still spoken in South Korea and the historical Joseon and earlier kingdoms) has been heavily influenced by Chinese Characters over the centuries, regardless if they use the Chinese characters or not.
