Korean(5) File Formats Manual Korean(5)
NAME
Korean, korean - Introduction to Korean language support
DESCRIPTION
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 charac-
ters 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
The operating system supports the following codesets for Korean by means of locales, codeset converters, or both: The string deckorean rep-
resents 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 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 UCS-2, UCS-4, ucs4, 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 code-
set converters. See code_page(5) for more information. The string ISO-2022-KR represents this encoding format in the names of code-
set 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
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.
The operating system supports the following Korean keyboards:
LK201-K LK401-K
However, you can also use any standard English 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 input server to support Korean input methods. This input
server is started automatically for your CDE session when you specify Korean as your session language at login time. See dxhangulim(1X) for
more information about this input server and how to start it from the command line for applications not running under CDE.
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: Using a VT382-K terminal:
Compose selects Hangul Shift+Compose selects Hanja Ctrl+Compose selects Row-Column Using an LK201* keyboard:
Compose+Space selects Hangul Shift+Compose selects Hanja Ctrl+Compose+Space selects Row-Column F6 selects Phrase Using an LK401*
keyboard:
Compose selects Hangul Shift+Compose selects Hanja Ctrl+Compose selects Row-Column F6 selects Phrase Using any PC-style keyboard:
Shift+Space selects Hangul Shift+Alt+Space selects Hanja Ctrl+Alt+Space selects Row-Column F6 selects Phrase
You can customize these key sequences by using the Customization menu of the dxhangulim application.
Fonts for Motif Applications
X or Motif applications require non-ASCII fonts to display Korean characters. An application can find Korean fonts in either of the fol-
lowing directories: /usr/i18n/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/75dpi, for low resolution display /usr/i18n/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/100dpi, for high reso-
lution 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 sub-
stitute 100dp for 75dpi if you want high resolution display.
% xset +fp /usr/i18n/lib/X11/decwin/75dpi/ % xset fp rehash
Printers
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) refer-
ence pages.
Fonts that support characters defined by the DEC Korean codeset are listed in the deckorean(5) reference page.
SEE ALSO
Commands: locale(1), lp(1), lpr(1), dxhangulim(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)
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