My primary language is English, and that is how i set my Slackware box to run as, but i have started to learn Korean, and would like to beable to write (e-mails/IM's) my friends in hangul (the writen korean language) I can add Korean to the Xkb settings but when i select it, it says "err" error changing keyboard layout to "ko"! In the country/region and language tab or "control center" it will not allow me to add korean, only US?

I would like to know if i am missing the supporting package, if so where could i get it from, and what else i might need to do to enable me to switch from korean to english on my slackware system.

thanks- dj

Annyong haseyo!

I use slackware 10 and I am learning korean too. Try installing nabi.

http://nabi.kldp.net/english.html

You need korean fonts installed...

annyonghi gyeseyo!

Hi!

I use Suse and I recently have installed the Korean baekmuk-fonts and the input-programs Nabi and Ami. Unfortunately I am still not able to write in Hangul.

The documentation page of Nabi says that I have to press SHIFT and SPACE. But where???
I can't do this in my OpenOfficeWriter or in Kate, because then the cursor just will move one space and that's it. Nothing else happens.

Now I feel very silly - therefore I would be really grateful if somebody could give me some advice what to do...

Thanks very much and a happy new year!

The distro i'm using is FC2, Im now in China and there are lots of website required my mozilla with Chinese language support.

The problem is when I install my FC2, i forgot to add in Chinese Language support capability, and now, since my FC2 has been finish installed, i found out that i just cant see Chinese website with my mozilla. Can somebody help me out with this? Thanks.

Hi all,

I have installed scim and scim-hangul packages (plus scim-chinese packages) from the rpms that you (should be able to) get from the developer's website (www.scim-im.org), make sure you are in UTF locale, e.g.en_US.UTF-8, and then run the following command from a command line prompt ($) :-
$ export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM

to make this permanent add this line to your ~/.bashrc file.

then type
$ scim -d
and the scim server will start up and load modules etc., and then when you are in your application such as email or word processor you can press the default CTRL + SPACE to activate the scim input window...make sure you change to a Korean font in your app otherwise it will look kind of funny...
let us know how you went,

cheers,
jdw

Hi JDW,
In order to use scim, do you have to start application from the console? Or you can do this just clicking on scim icon on bottom corner?
By the way when i click on scim button in system tray, i get no language options. Nothing happens. Give me some advice. Thanks.

Hi Ghostbox,

First - the command line is the easiest way to do this...
Second - if you right click on the scim box in the tray, you can select to open the scim configuration dialog...

I must admit I haven't tried SCIM with Suse, I imagine it should work fine though provided the main packages are installed - i.e. scim, scim-pinyin etc. Remember the basic steps to get this working (assuming you want to keep your Linux session with english menus etc) :-

1) set the LC_CTYPE and LANG settings to the unicode version of the language that you want - for me, to use Simplified Chinese I set it to zh_CN.UTF-8 (in Slackware this is zh_CN.utf8) with the following command :-

$ export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8; export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8;

2) set your XMODIFIERS variable to "SCIM" :-

$ export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM";

3) start the scim daemon :-

$ scim -d

4) launch your application (word processor, spreadsheet etc.) from the same terminal window (so that it "inherits" the language settings as in (1) and (2) above)

5) press CTRL + SPACE to launch the scim input window.

A tip : you can put all the commands (1-3) above on one line and save it as an alias (e.g. "scim") in your ~/.bash_rc file, so that you can just type in your alias in a new terminal window anytime and all these steps are carried out without having to type it all out again... guess that answers your first question as well...

hope this helps!

jdw

Thanks JDW.
I was able to make it work!. However, is there any way i can load scim when my kde starts without going through console. I'm trying to make it easy for my family just like IME in windows that single click changes input type. Let me know. Thanks.

Hi,

I'll experiment when I have a chance - maybe create some sort of desktop icon that launches everything in one hit...i've never tried this before.

cheers,

jdw