Abstract
It is known that about three thousand Korean (Hangul) characters are needed to fully display or print for POS terminal in Korea. If POS terminal houses all the characters in character generator memory size increases and increases production cost, therefore conventional POS terminal houses only limited number of characters in its character generator. Although missing characters are supplemented by numeric or English character, when sold products are registered by POS it was difficult for customer to read printed or displayed products name and when POS prints out report it was difficult for operator to read printed report. These facts caused serious MMI (Man Machine Interface) related problems. To resolve this problems, by analyzing the Korean character structure and using about 150 letters this paper presents an algorithm to generate 11, 172 Korean characters and its code. This presentation surely resolves the MMI related problems.
It is also referred to the fact that because this method requires small size of memory and uses fairly simple algorithm this can be used by various microprocessor embedded equipment to improve its MMI in Korea.
