Korean Keyboard in SuSE 9.3 [Re: [m17n] Viele Sprachen unter Linux (german) [Re: Simplified Chinese in SuSE]]

Marc Waeckerlin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.m17n
Organization Siemens Schweiz AG
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Montag, 6. Juni 2005 17.24 schrieb hermanmeester  
<"hermanmeester" <[email protected]>> unter "RE: 
[m17n] Viele Sprachen unter Linux (german) [Re: Simplified 
Chinese in SuSE]":
>   http://marc.wäckerlin.ch/linux/i18n.php
>  (http://marc.waeckerlin.org/linux/i18n.php)
>
> Sie sagen auch dass Suse 9.3 alles einfacher macht. Ich
> habe jetzt noch 9.1. Meinen Sie aber dass fuer Koreanisch
> etwas aelteres als 9.3 einfacher ist? Technisch ist
> Koreanisch eigentlich vollalfabetisch, nur das
> "Syllabendesign" gibt einen anderen Eindruck. Also, ist
> Hangeul fuer Suse 9.3 kein "Alfabet" mehr?

[I switch to enlish for the non german speaking 
participants]

[Ich wechsle auf englisch für nicht deutschsprachige 
Teilnehmer, ich hoffe, das verstehst Du auch]

The problem with Korean and SuSE 9.3 is, that you can 
configure a korean keyboard layout, but loading it results 
in an error. The command KDE tries to execute is:
  setxkbmap -model inspiron -layout ko
This results in the error message:
  Error loading new keyboard description

In older SuSE Linuxes, it did work, then with a KDE update, 
the korean keyboard layout disappeard completely from the 
list of available layouts in KDE (I think, that was in SuSE 
9.2, but with an additional apt-Upgrade of KDE). Now the 
layout is back again, but it does not work.

Mike: Do you know anything about it? I've seen, that there 
was recently a korean subject in the mailing list, but I 
did not read it. Was it about the same topic?


> Hangeul zu lernen schafft man in einer Stunde. Ziemlich
> genial Entwurf, glaub' ich.)

Yes, Hangeul is really genious, it's simple and it fits very 
well to the Korean (and only to the Korean) language.


> Wie es auch sei, ich glaube man koennte Koreanisch
> (Hangeul) in Software immer als alfabetisch betrachten;
> der Syllabenentwurf ist nur chinesisch beeinflusste
> Esthetik.

Yes, similar to Indian or Semitic languages, Hangeul is 
alfabetical and only combined for reasons of beauty. Me 
too, I think languages like Korean (or Hindi or Arabian, 
but also Japanese Kana) do not need a special input method, 
they could easily be mapped on a normal keyboard.

Unfortunately, actually I need SCIM / SKIM to enter Korean. 
But with this it works well. Arabian and Russian still work 
with the respective keyboard layout.


Regards
Marc

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