[SCIM] Simple hangul for scim-tables

[Choe Hwanjin]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:38:11PM +0200, David wrote:
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> I did some tests to learn how to create input method with scim-tables. 
> The description of it is here: 
> http://wiki.fontconfig.org/Software/ScimSupportLanguageNewTable
> 
> The by-product of this tests is a korean input based on transcription. I 
> was following the transcription rules for IIIMF simple hangul explaind 
> on this page: http://www3.sympatico.ca/d.moser/hangul.html
> 
> Lacking the hangul-transcription table, I generated one with a small 
> Perl script from hangul.txt.in source code.
> 
> The result seems OK. Of course it is not convenient enough for native 
> user, but may be useful for westerners inputting korean occasionally.
> 
> How it looks like? For example, to get "안녕하세요。요즈음 
> 어떻게 지내십 니까？" I have to type "annyeongha seyo.yojeueum eo 
> Deohge ji nae sibni Ga?".
> 
> I think it could be greatly improved by either extending the table or 
> adding some "smart" functions to allow for example such input as 
> "annyeonghaseyo. yojeueum eoDeohge jinaesibniGa?". For the moment it is 
> not that smart ;-).
> 
> Anyone interested to give it a critical try?
> 
> And I have a question. Anyone can explain what is this section for?
> 
> BEGIN_CHAR_PROMPTS_DEFINITION
> ...
> END_CHAR_PROMPTS_DEFINITION
> 
> It is in table src file.
> 
> Best regards,
> David
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I made a new hangul romaja input table:
http://people.kldp.org/~krisna/depot/HangulRomaja.txt

This is a script which generated a table above:
http://people.kldp.org/~krisna/depot/hangul_romaja_gen.py

There is a table for hangul romaja input already:
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/ScimSupportLanguageNewTable
But this does not cover full unicode range of hangul.

So I made new version which cover full hangul unicode range.
And there are some differences in key sequences.

1. Double consonant can be inputed by pressing same key twice.
ex) gg -> ㄲ
    dd -> ㄸ
    ss -> ㅆ
    jj -> ㅉ

2. Vowel sequences are more intuitive
    ㅗ + ㅏ = ㅘ so 'oa' produce 'ㅘ', 'wa' also changed to 'ㅘ'
    ㅜ + ㅓ = ㅝ so 'ueo' produce 'ㅝ', 'wo' alse changed to 'ㅝ'
    ㅏ + ㅣ = ㅐ so 'ai' produce 'ㅐ'

3. 'r' is only used for Initial consonant and not trailing consonant.
And 'l' is used for trailing consonant only.

Key sequence table:

Choseong (Initial consonant)
ㄱ        g
ㄲ        gg, G
ㄴ        n,
ㄷ        d,
ㄸ        dd, D
ㄹ        r,
ㅁ        m,
ㅂ        b,
ㅃ        bb, B
ㅅ        s,
ㅆ        ss, S
ㅈ        j, z,
ㅉ        jj, J, zz, Z
ㅊ        ch
ㅋ        k, q
ㅌ        t
ㅍ        p
ㅎ        h

Jungseong (Vowel)
ㅏ        a
ㅐ        ai, ae
ㅑ        ya
ㅒ        yai, yae
ㅓ        eo
ㅔ        e, eoi
ㅕ        yeo
ㅖ        ye, yeoi
ㅗ        o
ㅘ        oa, wa
ㅙ        oai, wae
ㅚ        oi, oe
ㅛ        yo
ㅜ        u
ㅝ        ueo, wo
ㅞ        ue, we
ㅟ        ui, wi
ㅠ        yu
ㅡ        eu
ㅢ        eui, ui
ㅣ        i

Jongseong (Trailing consonant)
ㄱ        g
ㄲ        gg, G 
ㄳ        gs   
ㄴ        n    
ㄵ        nj   
ㄶ        nh   
ㄷ        d    
ㄹ        l    
ㄺ        lg   
ㄻ        lm   
ㄼ        lb   
ㄽ        ls   
ㄾ        lt  
ㄿ        lp  
ㅀ        lh   
ㅁ        m    
ㅂ        b    
ㅄ        bs   
ㅅ        s    
ㅆ        ss   
ㅇ        ng   
ㅈ        j, z 
ㅊ        ch   
ㅋ        k   
ㅌ        t   
ㅍ        p   
ㅎ        h