Apple Macintosh Korean Language Kit - Manual (Page 22)

What are scripts?
Your Macintosh supports multiple languages and their writing systems
through software known as a script system. A script system tells your
computer what characters the script contains and which keystrokes
produce them. The script system also specifies the direction of text
flow (left to right or right to left) and other information, such as sort
order and date, time, number, and currency formats.
For instance, if you are working in English, your system is using the
Roman script. The Roman character set is available and text flows from
left to right.
If you are working in Korean, your system is using the Korean script.
The Korean character set is available and individual characters are
correctly combined to form Hangul and Hanja.
The same script can be used by several languages if they share most of
the same characters. For example, the Roman script is used for English,
French, and other languages.
Examples of Macintosh scripts and corresponding languages
m Roman
French, Italian, Spanish, English,
German, others
m Cyrillic Russian, Ukrainian, others
m Hebrew Hebrew, Yiddish
m Korean Korean
m Chinese Chinese
m Japanese Japanese
m Arabic Arabic, Persian
m Thai
Thai
Primary and secondary scripts
The script used by your system software—the language in the menus,
dialog boxes, and other items on the screen—is your computer’s
primary script. If you install a language kit that uses a different script,
that script becomes a secondary script for your system. For example, if
your system is English, and you install the Korean Language Kit, your
system’s primary script is Roman, and its secondary script is Korean.
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