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Korean Language 1

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i have a user who wants to type in Korean. Does anyone know what is required for this?Is there something I need to buy or can I just change the language settings? Thanks.
 
Hi,
I've helped friends do this on XP systems. It's part of the OS, but requires some tweaks. I assume that you mean they want to type Korean into WORD documents, etc. correct?

Let me see if I can remember the sequence of fidgits...

You may need to use the installation CD if the fonts and
language support were not intstalled with the OS.

There are settings in Regional and Language Options that need to be made. Click on the Laguages tab and select "Install Files for East Asian Languages." You may need to have the Windows CD handy for this. Click "Apply" and load the support packages, then click the "Details" button which gives you another menu. Under "Text Services and Input Languages" click the "Add" button to add Korean to the list of available input languages. You can then change the "Default" input language if so desired, but it is not necessary since a Language Bar can be placed on the system tray that allows selecting the input language from the desktop. The "Preferences -- Language Bar" button should now be active, and clicking on this button may give you options for the configuration of the Language Bar, a desktop interface that allows you to select the input language and its method. (Once installed, the Language Bar may simply be the Letter "E" or "K" on the systray and clicking on that letter should bring up a menu allowing the selection of English or Korean. It can be a bit confusing to find where on the screen the system is displaying the Language Bar that should then appear when you're using Korean, and sometimes it doesn't appear where or when you expect it to, so you may need to fuss with it until its behavior becomes clear.)

Also, on the 'Text Sevices and Input Languages" window's "Advanced" tab check "Extend support of advanced text services to all programs" and "Apply."

There is another tweak in WORD itself that may be necessary.

I forget just now. Poke around under "Tools" and "Options" and you should find some language related settings.

All of this can be done in Windows 98 as well but the method is a bit different, and a free download from Microsoft is required, since it's not part of the distribution CD as it is in XP. So do a search for "IME" (Input Method Editor) and look for information about "East Asian Languages" on the Microsoft website. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean all use double-byte charactes and you may find that searching for CJK is also helpful since all these characters are contained in one big fonts file.

I hope this helps. I may have forgotten something. You may need to poke around the system and experiment a bit to get it to work, but once you get it working it's pretty seamless and intuitive.

--torandson
 
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