Thursday, April 29, 2010

How to type Korean in Linux

IBus Keyboard Input Method
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System > Administration > Language Support

Keyboard Input Methods "ibus"
Install Languages > Korean
IBus Input Method > Korean > Add

Ctrl+Space to enable/disable (or click the keyboard icon on the toolbar and select Korean)

You have two options: remap your English keyboard (a) and put sticky notes or do a lot of scrolling (b).


Option a: Korean 2bul
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The 'm' in Korean is the character 'a' in the English keyboard, etc.
ㅁ m = korean 2bul (a)
ㄴ n = korean 2bul (s)
ㅎ h = korean 2bul (g)
ㅓ eo = korean 2bul (j)
ㅏ a = korean 2bul (k)

So
한 = han = korean 2bul type 'gks'

This method, you can type Chinese too.


Option b: Hangul Romaja
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Hangul Romaja (안년 하세요 = annyeon haseyo):
안 an
년 nyeon

하 ha
세 se
요 yo

Problem is, I got these to work with a lot of scrolling in the pop-up, the ones I want are always the last one the list!

SCIM (can't get it to work ...)

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Have SCIM Manager installed, Install scim-tables-ko and scim-hangul
    $ sudo apt-get install scim scim-tables-ko scim-hangul
Select your chosen input type in IMEngine > SCIM Global Setup and IMEngine > Hangul (keyboard layout 2bul)
    $ scim-setup
Start SCIM (might need to add in System > Preferences > Startup Applications)
    $ scim
Restart Ubuntu


References
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http://translate.google.com/#ko|ko|annyeon%20haseyo
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-30517.html
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KikFlNNizUIJ:ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-30517.html+korean+2bul+in+linux&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=ubuntu&source=www.google.com
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=30981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Hangul_.28for_Korean.29
http://langintro.com/kintro/syllable.htm
http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-205098.html  (Nabi package)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

how do you remap your computer to type in 2bul?