Korean, korean - Introduction to Korean language support
KS X 1001 is a Korean national standard that defines a set
of graphic characters to be used for information interchange.
The operating system supports this standard with
coded character sets, locales, device, and other kinds of
system files. The former name for the Korean national
standard was KS C 5601. Under its old name, the standard
was issued in 1982, 1987, and 1992.
The operating system currently supports the KS X 1001
standard as issued in 1992, but does not include the Johab
subset of Hangul characters in the DEC Korean and Korean
EUC codesets that are discussed in this reference page.
The standard specifies that support for the Johab subset
of Hangul characters is optional.
Codesets [Toc] [Back]
The operating system supports the following codesets for
Korean by means of locales, codeset converters, or both:
The string deckorean represents this codeset in the names
of locales and codeset converters. See deckorean(5) for
more information.
If Korean character mapping in an input file that
you want to convert to DEC Korean conforms to Version
1.1 of the Unicode standard, you must preprocess
the data by running the UNICODE-1-1-UCS-4_UCS-4
converter before running the
UCS-4_deckorean converter. If the character mapping
of an input file conforms to Version 2.0 or
later of the Unicode standard, this preprocessing
step is not necessary.
If the output from the cp949_UTF-8 codeset converter
is then converted to DEC Korean, some Hangul
characters may be lost. See code_page(5) for more
information. The string eucKR represents this
codeset in the names of locales and codeset converters.
See eucKR(5) for more information. The
strings UTF-16, UCS-4, and UTF-8 represent these
encoding formats in the names of locales or codeset
converters. See Unicode(5) for more information.
The string cp949 represents this encoding format in
the names of codeset converters. See code_page(5)
for more information. The string ISO-2022-KR represents
this encoding format in the names of codeset
converters. These are special-purpose converters
used only by certain mail applications.
See the i18n_intro(5) reference page for general information
about codesets. See the iconv_intro(5) reference page
for a discussion of codeset converters and how to use
them.
Korean Locales [Toc] [Back]
The following list specifies Korean locales for Korea and
the codesets they support:
ko_KR.deckorean, for DEC Korean
ko_KR.eucKR, for Korean EUC
ko_KR.UTF-8, for UTF-8
The ko_KR.deckorean locale has a ko_KR.deckorean@ucs4
variant for use by applications that need to convert DEC
Korean to UCS-4 process code in order to perform certain
character-classification operations. The UTF-8 locale also
uses UCS-4 process code but expects file code to be in
UTF-8 format.
You can use the locale command (see locale(1)) to display
the names of locales installed on your system. See
i18n_intro(5) for information on setting locale from the
operating system command line.
In the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), you need to set
the session language at login time. Use the Language menu
that is accessed from the Options button of the Login window.
Keyboards, Input Servers, and Input Methods
The operating system supports the VT382-K Korean terminal.
You can use any standard English PC-style keyboard to
enter Korean. See the keyboard(5) reference page for
information on loading keyboard mapping tables (keymaps)
for keyboards.
For a Motif environment like CDE, the operating system
provides the dxhangulim and dxim input servers to support
Korean input methods. The dxhangulim input server is
started automatically for your CDE session when you specify
Korean as your session language at login time. See
dxhangulim(1X) and dxim(1X) for more information about
these input servers.
Korean characters can be entered by the following input
methods: Hangul Hanja Row-Column Code Phrase Input Method
You select the Korean input method by using a key or key
sequence as follows: If you are using a VT382-K terminal:
Compose selects Hangul
Shift+Compose selects Hanja
Ctrl+Compose selects Row-Column
If you are using any PC-style keyboard:
Shift+Space selects Hangul
Shift+Alt+Space selects Hanja
Ctrl+Alt+Space selects Row-Column
F6 selects Phrase
If you are using the dxim input server, use F3 to
invoke the Korean input method in combination with
F5 to select Hangul. Once in Hangul, use F6 to
switch to Hanja or F7 to switch to Row-Column. Use
F5 to switch back to Hangul. The F12 function key
selects Phrase input.
You can customize these key sequences by using the Customization
menu of the dxhangulim or dxim applications.
Fonts for Motif Applications [Toc] [Back]
X or Motif applications require non-ASCII fonts to display
Korean characters. An application can find Korean fonts
in either of the following directories:
/usr/i18n/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/75dpi, for low resolution
display /usr/i18n/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/100dpi, for high
resolution display
For applications running under CDE, no user commands are
necessary to make Korean fonts available if they are
installed on the system or provided through a font server.
For applications running in other environments, you may
need to use the following command to check the font path:
% xset q
If one of the directories in the preceding list is not in
the font path, the following example shows how to add the
directory. You can substitute 100dp for 75dpi if you want
high resolution display.
% xset +fp /usr/i18n/lib/X11/decwin/75dpi/ % xset fp
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Printers [Toc] [Back]
The operating system supports the following Korean printers.
The associated print filter is noted in parentheses
following the printer name. The LA380-K is a Korean
graphic line printer. The DL510-KA is a Korean page
printer.
For information on setting up and configuring these printers,
refer to the i18n_printing(5) and lprsetup(8) reference
pages.
For information on how to use other kinds of printers to
print Korean characters, see the i18n_printing(5),
pcfof(8), and wwpsof(8) reference pages.
Fonts that support characters defined by the DEC Korean
codeset are listed in the deckorean(5) reference page.
Commands: locale(1), lp(1), lpr(1), dxhangulim(1X),
dxim(1X), xset(1X), lpd(8), lprsetup(8)
Files: printcap(4)
Others: code_page(5), deckorean(5), eucKR(5),
i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5), keyboard(5), l10n_intro(5), Unicode(5)
Using International Software
Korean(5)
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