Installing Korean in your Windows XP

[hyunwoo]

Here's what Steve wrote in a different section of the forum, and I'm copying it here hoping that this will be of help for those who have problems with seeing or typing Hangul.

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If you are running XP go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Language Tab (at the top). There you should check the "Install files for East Asian laguages" box. Also, go to the Details button and "Add.." the Korean keyboard for the IME system. I think that should do it. With IME installed you will either see a bar at the top of your screen or in the lower right hand corner to the left of the system tray showing what keyboard you have selected. With the Korean keyboard selected hitting the right ALT key will toggle between the English and Korean fonts so you can then type in Korean. Very Happy . Right-clicking on the IME bar will give you more display options, left-clicking letting you choose a keyboard. You can also install the Japanese keyboard there too so you can type in Japanese as well! You shouldn't need to install a language dependent operating sytem unless you are running windows 95 which you shouldn't be running anyway Wink . I think the instructions in the link above that Hyunwoo posted should get the fonts to display in the browser you are using.
Is this information detailed anywhere else in the forums? Perhaps this belongs in the technical section.
Anyway, Welcome and good luck!

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[JockZon]

I also wrote this (about win XP) in the sticky about hangul. Maybe someone could tell me how I do in linux? ^^

[steved]

Which LInux distribution are you using? I know that Ubuntu has an integrated IME-type setup.

[Ulver_684]

Here's what Steve wrote in a different section of the forum, and I'm copying it here hoping that this will be of help for those who have problems with seeing or typing Hangul.

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If you are running XP go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Language Tab (at the top). There you should check the "Install files for East Asian laguages" box. Also, go to the Details button and "Add.." the Korean keyboard for the IME system. I think that should do it. With IME installed you will either see a bar at the top of your screen or in the lower right hand corner to the left of the system tray showing what keyboard you have selected. With the Korean keyboard selected hitting the right ALT key will toggle between the English and Korean fonts so you can then type in Korean. Very Happy . Right-clicking on the IME bar will give you more display options, left-clicking letting you choose a keyboard. You can also install the Japanese keyboard there too so you can type in Japanese as well! You shouldn't need to install a language dependent operating sytem unless you are running windows 95 which you shouldn't be running anyway Wink . I think the instructions in the link above that Hyunwoo posted should get the fonts to display in the browser you are using.
Is this information detailed anywhere else in the forums? Perhaps this belongs in the technical section.
Anyway, Welcome and good luck!

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Hyunwoo-sun!

I have Windows Vista so would this work for Vista too

[steved]

In Vista from the Regional and Language panel you go to the Keyboard and Language tab and then use the Change Keyboard option. There you can install the Korean keyboard/IME support.

[javiskefka]

I also wrote this (about win XP) in the sticky about hangul. Maybe someone could tell me how I do in linux? ^^

If you have a Debian-based distribution, it should be fairly simple. Install the scim package. It should get added to your Applications menu. When you run it, a keyboard icon will show up on the upper right of your desktop. Click on it, select Korean, then select the keyboard layout. I think the top most one is the standard one you will see in S. Korea. Let me know if you have any problems!

[javiskefka]

I have seen a couple old posts about problems that people had running Korean programs on their English language systems. Even though they had East Asian languages support installed, the text would show up is incorrect symbols like: A`&c3

Here's how to fix this problem. There's a more technical explanation, but basically, the program is coded for a system running Korean Windows, so since your computer is running English windows, the wrong character is displayed. There is a Microsoft program called AppLocale which enables you to start a program with a different codepage from your system default (like Korean!). You can get it here: Install AppLocale utility and find out more detailed information here: The Microsoft AppLocale Utility.

After you have installed this, you can run it, then select the application that you want to start, along with the language (select 한국어 from the bottom of the list), and if you want to create a shortcut for running the application in this way for the future. This will allow you to run whatever you were unable to before, because now you can actually tell what that button says!

[the_haunted_boy]

Whenever I do that it says I need Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD, but I don't have it. On my laptop Korean was already on it, almost like a default. (I don't actually know a lot about computers, just basics.)

[matthew254]

Whenever I do that it says I need Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD, but I don't have it.

I know its a bit old, but I had the same problem a long time ago.

Okay so my computer is from an OEM company (and online custom company that makes setups from scratch) and when I bought the setup, I had them install WinXP Pro. Pretty standard. What was different was that it was the OEM version of WinXP. All that means is that it is a cheaper version, but still full featured and works exactly like a retail version, just no shiny box, and NO backup DVD. only thing I got was a restore DVD in case I want to bring it all back to factory settings.

This may or may not be your case. You say that the computer aks for the SP2 DVD/CD and that's right. Microsoft wanted to save storage space by having the East Asian languages on a separate CD/DVD. It doesn't really save that much space, but I understand why they would want to do this on an American English version.

You essentially have two options. you can 1) find a friend and use their CD/DVD and it will work just fine or
2) find a nice person to upload the (i think) half a gig folder that contains all that you need online for you.

in my case, since i know a little bit about this kind of stuff, i went to a website that has like million .dll and .bin files. think of them as puzzle pieces for almost any program...and I just requested someone online that they post the list of "puzzle pieces" and I went to work downloading each and every one at a time. Took about 2 hours actually. not proud, but i have Korean IME on my legit copy of Windows!

anyways, this may or may not help, but for anyone else possibly needing this info, I hope it helps.

[matthew254]

here's a screenshot that has helped some others out that should be here.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m166 ... hangul.jpg
anyone still having trouble installing Korean on Windows XP should check out the link above.

[hyunwoo]

This will be very helpful for a lot of people, Matthew ; ) Thanks!

[John]

ok all of the sudden I can't type in Korean anymore, I removed and re-installed the IME, but I can't get the "A" to come up anymore. It says KO Korean with the globe and Korean Input System but I can only type in English.

[javiskefka]

ok all of the sudden I can't type in Korean anymore, I removed and re-installed the IME, but I can't get the "A" to come up anymore. It says KO Korean with the globe and Korean Input System but I can only type in English.

I'm not sure how it could suddenly disappear, but here are some ways I can think of to make it come back:

1. Make sure that "additional icons in taskbar" is checked when you right click o nthe language bar
2. Expand the language bar as long as possible, to make sure that the "A" icon isn't hidden somewhere to the right
3. Make sure that advanced text services are not disabled. (Not sure how to get to this setting. Type "advanced text services" in windows help to get there)
4. Make sure that the Korean keyboard is installed (Settings for the language bar, Selct Korean click Add)

[John]

3. Make sure that advanced text services are not disabled. (Not sure how to get to this setting. Type "advanced text services" in windows help to get there)


That was it.....thx!!

[javiskefka]

3. Make sure that advanced text services are not disabled. (Not sure how to get to this setting. Type "advanced text services" in windows help to get there)


That was it.....thx!!

Excellent! The same thing happened on my work computer, so that's how I found out about that setting.