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[mnhnhyouh]

I will be in Korea in 17 sleeps

I have a new laptop running Windows XP SP2 and Office 2000. I am wanting to be able to type and display Korean characters. What do I need to do?

MTIA

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[matthews_world]

If your laptop doesn't already have a Korean/English keyboard then your pretty much screwed I'd imagine.

You may want to get a refund and buy one here. Save luggage space in the meantime.

Anybody else have suggestions??

There might be a way under preferences for your system to be able to type in other languages. I'm not that savvy.

I believe there are webpages that give you the foreign language templates for your qwerty keyboard.

[Atavistic]

It's not hard to set it up.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_East_Asian_Language_Support_Under_Windows

1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Control Panel, and then click Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options.
2. Click the Regional and Language Options icon, and then click the Languages tab.
3. In the Supplemental languages support box, check the box for Install East Asian Languages.
4. Click Apply and OK.


Now, a language bar should show up somewhere on your screen, probably in the lower right side. To me, it was a pain in the ass to get that thing to actually switch to Hangul. I had to click from EN to KO, then click from the A to the 가. And I couldn't do it with the keyboard (at least, I couldn't figure out how) so that meant if I was typing, I had to remove my hand, move to the mouse. Ugh. Way too many keystrokes.

So I right clicked it and chose SETTINGS. I said that my input language was Korean (rather than English). On my laptop that means that all I have to do to switch between them is click the alt button next to the righthand side control button. One click. Lovely.

As for learning the keyboard layout, you can buy stickers that go on your keyboard when you get here. Or order them from eBay before you get here. What I don't like is that they peel off of the keyboard. I've nearly memorized the Korean layout anyways, so it doesn't much matter at this point, but I may but a fine-tipped silver Sharpie and just write on the keyboard...

[nobbyken]

I got good Korean keyboard stickers from 4Keyboard.com through ebay.
They are American based and very simple and inexpensive in a choice of 6 colours, to suit your keyboard.

[jazblanc77]

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