Korean Fonts / IME
 

everyone,

I am new to linux and have recently installed Xubuntu on a hand-me-down IMAC G3. I initially was leary of linux and basically just wanted to see if I could do it. But after getting it installed I am considering taking the leap and going to Linux on my regular use system.

One thing that holding me back, is that my wife needs to be able to type in korean in order to corespond via e-mail with her family, back in S. Korea. We are accomplishing this now using windows XP and the Korean IME. Is there anything similar to this in linux, and if so how hard is it going to be for a complete linux newbie to install and use?

any help or advice would be appreciated

Hi dfrank!

Since this is your first post at LQ.org, allow me to welcome you. Coincidentally, I am learning Korean (man, isn't it hard) and typing in Korean with Linux is relatively simple. There are, however, some inconsistencies. For example, I could not type in Korean using aMSN (and a few other applications), but it would work on OpenOffice, Firefox and Gaim. There are three good guides about enabling Korean (and other Asian languages) in Ubuntu which are pretty good:

http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ja...in_Ubuntu_7.04

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2168768

The first one is the one that works for me. But three links with three different tutorials are always better than one I guess :)

행운을 빕니다!

Will these work usinf XUBUNTU?
 

thanks for the tutorials!

I have read through the 1st one and it doesn't mentin xubuntu. I am curious if I need to be using the kde or gnome desktop in order to install the cjk program as described. I currently use xubuntu on a resource limited (IMAC G3 333mhz, 96mb ram) computer.

Hi again dfrank. They will definitely work in xubuntu. Xubuntu is the distro I am using actually :).

Coldn't find package UIM
 

Hi,

in trying to follow directions in the first tutorial, I opened a terminal and entered

sudo apt-get install uim anthy scim-gtk2-immodule scim-uim scim-chinese scim-hangul scim-tables-zh scim-tables-ja scim-tables-ko

the out come was:

Reading package lists.....done
Building dependency tree.....done
E: couldn't find package UIM



what exactly is UIM?
and where/how would I get it? where would I put it if I did get it?

Hi again mate. You will need to enable the "Universe" repository for apt-get in order to install that. This is how you do it:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:F...a_repositories

there are two ways of doing that (as described on the link). Adding the repositories manually or using the system graphical interface. Try the one you find easier. It is very good to enable these repositories right away, so you will have many more packages available to install not found within (x)Ubuntu right away, specially media support.

I hope this helps.

P.S: UIM is short for "Universal Input method". I am not exactly sure how it works, but I guess it is some sort of interface or framework. Basically, you write(input) everything to uim and uim is responsible for sending what you input to the applications. This is a wild guess... but you do need uim :)