how to type korean in win xp

[FrankieY18]

i can type chinese and japanese in my win xp..but i can't type korean...you need to install some fonts to do it??

[SunWuKong]

i can type chinese and japanese in my win xp..but i can't type korean...you need to install some fonts to do it??

what do you mean you "can't type Korean"?
do you mean that you don't have any Korean input method for your OS?

[FrankieY18]

what do you mean you "can't type Korean"?
do you mean that you don't have any Korean input method for your OS?

yeah..like i opened notepad and change it to korean input...but it still gives me english letters...

[>:^|]

You probably have to download the Korean IME.

[FrankieY18]

You probably have to download the Korean IME.

i just did that already...still doesn't work

ok, now..i can type korean in IE..but not notepad..

[SunWuKong]

go to Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Languages->Details

make sure you have the right input method installed. i'm using IME 2002.

testing...
안녕하세요? 저순우궁입니다. 저흥콩사람이에요.

can someone tell me if i got that right?

[applehead]

hey rad. that's good!

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Still doesn't work for me either. XP w/ IME 2002 installed. Before, the little "Han/Eng Toggle" button didn't do anything, I would press it, it would just stay as an "A" (for English).

Now, I turned on extended text services for all programs. So I can press the toggle button, and the little picture on the button changes into "Ka" (in Korean). But I still can't actually type Korean, just English letters. If I want to input Korean, I have to draw, which is really annoying. Even the soft keyboard (the onscreen thing) doesn't work, it has hangul displayed on it, but I press the buttons and it outputs English???

Also, is there an input method where you can actually type syllables using the normal keyboard layout? You can do this for Japanese, why not Korean? Just had to be special and nationalistic and have your own confusing keyboard layout where H gives you an N, Q gives you an S, etc ... yup that makes lots of sense :tongue:

[SunWuKong]

Also, is there an input method where you can actually type syllables using the normal keyboard layout? You can do this for Japanese, why not Korean? Just had to be special and nationalistic and have your own confusing keyboard layout where H gives you an N, Q gives you an S, etc ... yup that makes lots of sense :tongue:

well, Korean uses consonants and vowels, but yeah, it would be helpful for people like me if there was a romaji/pinyin equivalent Korean input method.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

well, Korean uses consonants and vowels
As opposed to other languages which use grunts, whistles, and clicking sounds? :tongue:

Seriously, I mean, for Taiwan, I can understand them having a funny layout for zhuyin, because they don't really have an official romanization scheme that everyone knows, and some initials and rhymes would be spelled with more than one letter, and even represent more than one phoneme. But Korea has an official romanization not to mention an alphabet, which you think would make it easy to map things onto the pre-existing QWERTY keyboard.

[SunWuKong]

As opposed to other languages which use grunts, whistles, and clicking sounds? :tongue:

well as opposed to syllabaries like Japanese, smartass. :rolleyes: as in Hiragana and Katakana.
so you can't really type syllables when you type Korean (Hangul), you'd be typing in the consonants and vowels like you do in English.

Seriously, I mean, for Taiwan, I can understand them having a funny layout for zhuyin, because they don't really have an official romanization scheme that everyone knows, and some initials and rhymes would be spelled with more than one letter, and even represent more than one phoneme. But Korea has an official romanization not to mention an alphabet, which you think would make it easy to map things onto the pre-existing QWERTY keyboard.

if it was anything like how the QWERTY keyboard layout was conceived, then the Korean keyboard, i'm guessing, was probably mapped with the more commonly used letters being more easily accessible. so i don't think there's anything strange about that. it would just be nice to also have a romanisation input system as well. i wonder why Microsoft hasn't written one yet.

[FrankieY18]

i can't do the drawing thing in IE nor MS Word..but i can do it in the google bar search...how come?

[kimpossible]

As opposed to other languages which use grunts, whistles, and clicking sounds? :tongue:


:biggrin: hahah