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

Marc Waeckerlin [mailto:[email protected]] wrote:

> 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.

It looks like there never was a Korean keyboard layout in
XFree86/X-Org. There is a CHANGELOG entry from 18 December 2003 which
says that a Korean keyboard layout was added, but apparently it got
lost somehow.

If there was no error in older KDE versions, then probably the command
used an existing layout instead of the non-existing "ko" layout.

Actually, most Korean apparently have almost the same layout as
US-English keyboards.  The Korean keyboard I have here is like that.
The only differences to an US keyboard are:

   1) Jamo are printed on the keycaps next to the English characters
   2) two extra keys to the right and left of the space bar
   2) The key labelled '\' on an US keyboard is labelled
      with U+20A9 (WON SIGN)

That means it should be possible to use US keyboard layout without
much problems on such a keyboard as a stopgap measure until there is a
real Korean layout available in X11.

-- 
Mike FABIAN   <[email protected]>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian



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