Korean Input + English computer = Font Weirdness

RefriedBean · 08-21-2004, 11:06 AM

Hi!!

I am trying to get my computer (xorg 6.7.0, KDE 3.3.0) to have Korean input without affecting my usual English apps.

In my X startup scripts I have,

Code:

export XMODIFIERS="@im=nabi"
export LANG=en_US
export LANGUAGE=en_US
export LC_ALL=ko_KR
/usr/bin/nabi &
/usr/kde/3.3/bin/startkde

I can type Korean fine in any app, and that is great. But I have some problems.
[list=1][*]Strange font things
Fonts in some apps become strange, in firefox, the fonts become really small (almost unreadable to my eyes), and in Konsole, the fonts are really big and monospace.
[*]Korean interfaces
Some programs change their interfaces into Korean. Since I'm not that good at understanding Korean yet, it can be pretty annoying.[/list=1]

Can someone please tell me how I can type in Korean while keeping everything else English?

Some example screenshots can be found here

Thanks!!

Refried.

codec · 08-21-2004, 02:54 PM

the LC_MESSAGES would affect the interface and fonts. In the console example, there are chance that the font you use may report to the OS that it doesn't have single byte fonts so double byte. You may need to edit the local font config.

When we talk about gnome immodules, xim, kde's and console. It's a mess and people need the future release of iiimf. I am using slackware 10 and tweak it to CJK friendly is really hard.

Many people say redhat is bloated, but I think it's justified with the superior i18n support. When you don't want to think/try/patch you should think about redhat/fedora.