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Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Hello,
I'm in the US now test-driving laptops. I found a few I like and I wanted to see how I could type Korean on them. I went to the Control Panel, to the Region and Language setting, and activated Korean on the language bar.

When I switched the Hangeul on and started typing, Korean letters came up but I was writing entirely in gibberish. For example, the letters weren't where they should be on the keyboard, and when I hit some letters I'd get nonsensical Korean syllables. (Additionally, the "hanja" button wasn't working.)

I'm wondering what I can do to fix this problem (if it makes sense.) I'd like to have it figured out before I buy a computer so I can test out all the Korean functions.

It seems like it's something wrong with the keyboard configuration. WHen I just added Korean onto the desktop I'm using now, it worked fine right from the beginning. I'm confused. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks!

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

Are western laptops "Korean-ready"? Do they have the fonts on the keyboard? Or do you know the layout in your head?

In the "Regional and Language Options", did you go to "Languages" -> "Details" and then select a Korean input system? Like a virtual keyboard, kind of thing? (IME 2002)

To get full functionality in Korean on my system, I set the default language to Korean (so the language bar always reads "KO"). If one can't read Korean, don't do this, as many programs and some drivers install in Korean. However, after I did this, I have no problems at all with any Korean software, typing, reading, etc... .

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Hmm, okay thanks.

I know the layout in my head, which is how I knew what I was seeing on the screen shouldn't be there. (Besides, I was getting gibberish symbols with impossible "batchim" combinations, so I knew something was up.)

I went through all the steps talked about here and in the other threads, and I had the language bar feature Korean. I'm not going to set the default language to Korean, and since I was doing all of this in a Circuit City, that wasn't an option.

I'm still concerned about the original problem. I won't be buying anything for a few days. Maybe it was just an HP thing.

Xerxes · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:17 am Post subject:

I have a question for this too:

I recently bought a computer in US too. I did the Korean IME thing and I have the Korean tool bar on my explorer, and I can type in Korean in windows applications like MS Word.

The problem is that some Korean programs that I like (like altools AlSee) load with all of the Korean font garbled. hotmail does this too making utility of such programs and applications unusable.

What's the deal?!!

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

the key to not getting giberish is to change the setting for programs using non-unicode to Korean. I believe it's on the advanced tab but can't remember for sure.

jazblanc77 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004

Go to 'Start>Control Panel>Regional and Language Options>Languages>Details' then select your Korean IME (It should be 'IME 2002', NOT the 'Global IME'), and click the properties button. From there, you can select your keyboard setup.

BTW, you can buy hangeul stickers for your keyboard in most asian markets.

For all other instructions, look HERE.