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Howto install Vietnamese Input Method Scim-Unikey on Ubuntu

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:41:51 +0000

Today, I would like to introduce the Vietnamese input method in Ubuntu. Scim-Unikey is the most stable package for typing Vietnamese characters, by combining the advantages of Smart Character Input Method (SCIM) and the most famous Vietnam input method Unikey. Scim-Unikey now is maintained by Ubuntu-VN and Vietnamese Ubuntu Community. If you want to learn Vietnamese language, I recommend you to use Scim-Unikey in Ubuntu.

If you are using Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 10.04, please refer to install Vietnamese Input Method ibus-unikey in Ubuntu since IBus becomes the main input method manager instead of Scim.

Install Ubuntu-VN Repository

Using Software Sources

Add Ubuntu-VN PPA Authentication key

Download public key from http://www.ubuntu-vn.org/ubuntu-vn_ppa.key
Go to menu System->Administration->Software Sources
At tab Authentication, click Import Key File… -> browse to the downloaded file -> click OK.

Add APT source list

Go to menu System->Administration->Software Sources
At tab Third-Party Software, Add the following lines based on your current Ubuntu version:

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-vn/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-vn/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-vn/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-vn/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-vn/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-vn/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

Using Command Line

Open Terminal and type the corresponding line

Add Ubuntu-VN PPA Authentication key

wget -q http://www.ubuntu-vn.org/ubuntu-vn_ppa.key -O- | \
sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver \
keyserver.ubuntu.com 81E7FE09

Add APT source list

Type the following lines based on your current Ubuntu version:

Ubuntu 9.04

sudo wget http://www.ubuntu-vn.org/jaunty.list -O \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-vn.list

Ubuntu 8.10

sudo wget http://www.ubuntu-vn.org/intrepid.list -O \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-vn.list

Ubuntu 8.04

sudo wget http://www.ubuntu-vn.org/hardy.list -O \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-vn.list

Install scim-unikey packages

Now we are ready to install scim-unikey package:

Type search and find packag named scim-unikey in Synaptic
Use the command: sudo apt-get install scim-unikey

Configuration

Go to System -> Administration -> Language support and select Use input method engines (IME) to enter complex characters

Go to System -> Preferences -> SCIM Input Method Setup and assign hotkey for SCIM-Unikey input method.

You should restart your machine or logout your current session and login again. You can see and config anything with SCIM setup.

We have some input method types but the most popular type is Telex Unicode.

Reboot the machine and try to hit the hotkey and now we go . Xin chào (hello) by press: xin chaof

Install offline

Go to this website: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-vn/+archive/ppa
Choose the suitable package name and ubuntu version.
At the Package files tab, choose the corresponding .deb file
- i386: for Ubuntu 32 bit
- amd64: for Ubuntu 64bit
- lpia: for Ubuntu Mobile
- all: for all other architectures
Download and install as nomal
Configure as above

Reference

Ubuntu-VN Wiki

Cài bộ gõ tiếng Việt Scim-Unikey cho Ubuntu 9.04

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Special Korean Input method: Hangul Romaja

admin — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:03:59 +0000

All Korean input methods

At the moment,there are 3 Korean input methods:

Hangul: use Korean keyboard. For example, typing ‘a’ button we get consonant ㅁ (미음). Learning new type keyboard is very difficult for foreigner because it is easy to confuse with the English typing method, even you do not have Korean keyboard, you may write Korean character on some pieces of paper and stick on some buttons as my friends did. More information about Korean keyboard
Hangul Romaja: the improvement Korean input method I am interesting in. It uses Smart Common Input Method (SCIM)
Hanja: use to type Chinese-Korean characters and also use the keyboard Korean. You can find information about Hanja input method in Wikipedia

Hangul Romaja

Romaja literally means Roman letters in Korean, and refers to the Roman alphabet. “Romaja” is not to be confused with “romanization“. The former can be applied to any use of the Roman alphabet in Korean text—whether for Korean or non-Korean words or names—while the latter refers to writing Korean words using the Roman alphabet: either romanizing individual words in a Korean text, or writing an entire Korean text in the Roman alphabet.

Requirements:

Operating system: Linux based OS like Ubuntu, Fedora, …
SCIM install already.

As you can see, Hangul Romaja input method does not exist in Windows OS, but Linux nowadays becomes very popular so it does not matter. You can use 5 or 6GB for install Linux to learn Korean . Hangul and Hanja input methods are add-ons which Microsoft provided together with Windows OS.

Type Romaja Hangul only available on Ubuntu (Linux) with a package scim-tables-ko by one Korean author, I don’t remember. The most advantage of this method is we can save a lot of time on studying basic Korean chacracters so easy to learn Korean.

This method can be named as What you talk is what you type

For example: say Hello in Korean: 안년 하세요 we talk like this: an ha se yo nyoen and we also type the same thing using Hangul Romaja.

Configuration

I will introduce how to configuration this method in Ubuntu 9.04. You can also apply this configuration in earlier Ubuntu versions.

First you have to install SCIM (install already in Ubuntu distros) and scim-tables-ko in Synaptic or by typing these commands in Terminal:

sudo apt-get install SCIM

sudo apt-get install scim-tables-ko

And then, go to menu System -> Administration -> Language Support, type your super user password and select Use input method engines (IME) to enter complex characters.

Go to menu Sytem -> Preferences -> SCIM Input Method Setup and you can see Hangul Romaja in the Global Setup and you can choose the hotkeys for this input method. Note that you can also assign hotkeys for the traditional input methods: Hangul, Hanja.

And now, it is the time to restart your system.

Hangul Romaja Table

Actually, if you learn Korean for a while you will know how to type each characters in the pronounciation type, but I also mention this table as below:

You can also download this file as .pdf format Hangul Romaja Table.pdf (322) or Hangul Romaja table (Open office file) (153).

Now you can have fun with Korean language. I hope this lovely method will encourage you to learn Korean.

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