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[Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Jinook Oh <jinook0707@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> First of all, I'm new to the Ubuntu touch and also don't have experience
> in participating (although it's simply adding keyboard layout in this case)
> in big open source project.
>
> From the page you linked (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-keyboard/+bug/1342981), I found that an
> advice saying that
> 'You could look at this MR which was for adding a Serbian keyboard and do
> something similar for Korean:
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~danilo/ubuntu-keyboard/serbian-layout/+merge/229876
> '
>
> I branched, copied the Serbian keyboard files, edited it to Korean
> (although I had some doubts here and there).
> and pushed so that now it's here.
> https://code.launchpad.net/~jinook0707/ubuntu-keyboard/add-korean-layout
>
> But shouldn't I test it with my phone or simulator first? If so, how can I
> do it? I was hoping to find some guide document about testing this new
> layout, but I failed to find.
>
> Can you tell me what would be the next step?
>

You need to add a few more files, including a special file which describes
what should appear when you press a particular key.
If you check at
https://code.launchpad.net/~danilo/ubuntu-keyboard/serbian-layout/+merge/229876
and specifically the end of the page,
you can see in green boxes the parts that you need to add for Korean.

However, for the case of Korean, I think that there are a few
technicalities.
Specifically, for Chinese, the keyboard layout is found in the "pinyin"
subdirectory,
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/ubuntu-keyboard/trunk/files/head:/plugins/pinyin/

How do you normally type Korean on a phone? Do you type in a romanised
layout which is then converted
into Korean characters? Like in http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/korean.htm
?

If so, you would need to start with the existing pinyin files and adapt for
Korean.

Simos


>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Simos Xenitellis <
> simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Jinook Oh <jinook0707@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Although Korean is available as one of the display languages, it's not
>>> available as an input. Does anyone know whether it will be updated soon?
>>>
>>>
>> There is this revision,
>>
>> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/ubuntu-keyboard/trunk/revision/370
>> which adds seven new keyboard layouts: Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Greek,
>> Norwegian, Ukrainian, Slovenian and Icelandic.
>> These changes will make it in OTA-4, due to arrive to the phones sometime
>> mid-June.
>>
>> The full list of languages that are supported (or will be supported after
>> OTA-4), are
>>
>> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/ubuntu-keyboard/trunk/files/head:/plugins/
>>
>> For Korean, there is already a feature request at
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-keyboard/+bug/1342981
>> and there is need to help. It's somewhat easy to help out create a
>> keyboard layout.
>>
>> Simos
>>
>
>