gah! my reply keeps getting stuck in the moderation filter. i made a new ko.orth which only contains the ideographs and syllables in KS X 1001. it makes a world of difference, now it recognizes all my korean fonts as such. the results on the old ko.orth gave the following results on my fonts: Baekmuk fonts: ? ?Scanning file ./batang.ttf... ?ko(0) ? ?Scanning file ./dotum.ttf... ?ko(8822) ? ?Scanning file ./gulim.ttf... ?ko(0) ? ?Scanning file ./hline.ttf... ?ko(13703) Apple fonts: ? ?Scanning file ./#Gungseouche.dfont... ?ko(8827) ? ?Scanning file ./#HeadlineA.dfont... ?ko(13710) ? ?Scanning file ./#PCmyoungjo.dfont... ?ko(8826) ? ?Scanning file ./#Pilgiche.dfont... ?ko(13710) ? ?Scanning file ./AppleGothic.dfont... ?ko(8827) ? ?Scanning file ./AppleMyungjo.dfont... ?ko(8824) 8822 hangul syllables in unicode are missing from KS X 1001, and most of the fonts miss them too. about 5000 chinese characters are also in the old ko.orth that are missing from a lot of korean fonts. find the new ko.orth here: http://ghostscript.com/~tor/software/patches/ko.orth tor