typing in hangul

[untmdsprt]

@crabstix - maybe this will help if you haven't found anything yet.

http://web.me.com/typetrainer4mac/aType ... /home.html

[trutherous]

@crabstix - maybe this will help if you haven't found anything yet.

Well, it's been six months since 'crabstix' last post on this site so I guess he has either found something or lost interest by now.

I have an older G4 Mac running OS-X and the Hangul input system was just there with the language support packages. All I had to so was enable it and get stickers for the keyboard.

On my PC hardware I run Linux and use SCIM as the input system.

[untmdsprt]

I'm not really wanting stickers on my Mac since I'm a touch typist and want to learn Korean by touch too. At least the link is up there for anyone else who wants the program.

I run Linux on an old Thinkpad. Is SCIM better than IBus for input? What version of Linux are you using? I'm currently using Ubuntu since most software is precompiled for it, but I like Opensuse a bit better.

[trutherous]

Right. Good information. I think it great that the link is up there - really it could stand alone, and perhaps should under "Hangul Input Systems" or some such title. I'm a half touch typist in Eng -- no numbers .. 하글은.. 아 .. 아마 오 퍼센트만 안보고 칠할 수 있어요.. I learned to touch type in 1976, in a summer school class... unfortunately at 51 years old I find that the neural pathways for English are so burned into my brain that re-learning them creates some havoc in regular typing.

Linux:

Just last night I installed Ubuntu 11.4 on my latest PC hardware and I am very impressed. I can hardly wait to put that box into service because it has better hardware specs that my other computers.

I have been a SuSE Linux/ Opensuse fan for a long time, since perhaps SuSE 7.x but I am disappointed with their direction lately and find that opensuse 11.1 was the last version that I could tolerate. ...which, by the way, I am still running on this box:

george@linux-jfsb:~> cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.27.54-0.1-pae (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2010-10-19 18:40:07 +0200

I still run opensuse 10.3 on a box in the den, and an older version of Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 910 netbook --a little workhorse that has been to Korea twice and never failed to find and connect to wifi in the city.

I've never tried IBus because I started with SCIM and it has always worked well.

Windows:

For my wife and daughter I recently purchased Samsung laptops with Windows 7 pre-installed. While Windows 7 does seem like the first decent iteration of Windows, the necessity of maintaining a separate security suite subscription still bespeaks of inherent security flaws... oh well I suppose it keeps a lot of people employed. As my son, a network security specialist, often says "Dad, Windows is JOB security."