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ryouga013
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I bought a Korean USB keyboard so that i could type in Korean and not have to memorize the keys first or draw on my keybaord... well, I actually use Japanese a lot and the USB keyboard screwed up the input method on my computer... man that was a pain... it changed the Japanese setting to the traditional one, not the roman-to-Japanese one that is so common....
If you buy a keyboard for writing, set a system restore just in case... or you can just buy the stickers...
http://www.4keyboard.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=136 |
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tselem
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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| JustJohn wrote: |
| Of course, I suppose it could just be telling the computer which key you're hitting, but then the change to korean key is shortcut for a command on the computer to switch the encoding. Isn't it possible that the encoding the keyboard sets up is different than the encoding the language bar sets up? |
There are no special keys on a keyboard. As billybrobby noted, the keyboard is a 'dumb' input device. It reports a simple code to the operating system. The operating system then chooses what that code represents according to the currently selected keyboard mapping.
Encoding is not connected to the keyboard, nor the keyboard mapping and interpretational systems. It is handled at the application and/or possibly via system APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) levels. Encoding merely has to do with how the characters are stored on the machine. |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Well in that case I'm submitting the theory that when some people switch their encoding it switches to a different standard than when you press the 한/영 button.
Definitely different encodings are being used somewhere, because there are some that come out fine without me adjusting anything and some that come out garbled. |
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tselem
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| JustJohn wrote: |
| Well in that case I'm submitting the theory that when some people switch their encoding it switches to a different standard than when you press the 한/영 button. |
Scrap off the painted letters, symbols, words, and numbers from the plastic, and you begin to see the keyboard as a keyboard does. The keys on a keyboard are unique only insofar as they are individual keys. They have no special symbolic meaning to the keyboard itself. All meaning is applied to the keys by the operating system through the use of keyboard mapping. Hence, the keyboard has nothing to do with character encoding. |
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laserprinter
Joined: 18 Jun 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: Typing in Korean |
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lanems,
Click Apple. - System Preferences - International - Input Menu - Select "Show input menu in menu bar"
Next, setup keyboard shortcuts. My recommendation is shift-option-command-[ and shift-option-command-]. These are easy to finger quickly and don't interfere with other hot key configurations.
2-Set Korean is sufficient.
Once the input menu is in the menu bar, you can click it to change as well. If you need a keyboard visualization of the Hangeul layout, select "Show Keyboard Viewer" from the input menu.
Note: Most of the characters are single-key, but some require shift-key to be entered (i.e., ㅂ is key. ㅃ is shift-key.) When looking at the keyboard viewer hold down the shift key and you can see the changes. |
Thanks! |
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littlelisa
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I use 2-set Korean too, because I have the Korean keyboard pretty well memorized. I think it's pretty well set up too, with consonants on one side and vowels on another. |
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