From: Martin J. Dürst (duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp)
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 02:56:43 CST
Along the lines of Charlie's explanation below, I implemented a Korean
input method more than ten years ago in the application framework ET++.
(I gave a presentation about that at the 6th Unicode Implementers
Workshop in San Jose in 1994.)
If you for example typed the letters "hana", then at the point you had
typed "han", it would all be one syllable, with the "n" being the final
consonant. Then if you typed another "a", the "n" you had typed before
would be borrowed back from the "han" syllable, that syllable therefore
changing into "ha", resulting in overall two syllables, "ha" and "na".
Overall, it looked somewhat funny, but I think it did the job. But I
never had it tested with native users.
It worked only when typing text continuously (i.e. it wasn't possible to
'steal' a final consonant from a syllable by placing the caret just
after that syllable). But it worked even if the application wasn't
prepared at all for such stuff. It did that by simply sending a
backspace character and then the two new syllables to the application.
Regards, Martin.
On 2010/01/03 2:21, Charlie Ruland ☘ wrote:
> Ed,
>
> please note that in modern Korean it is usually unnecessary to
> ‘finalize’ a syllable in order to distinguish between initials and
> finals. The reason for this is, of course, their distribution: any
> consonant immediately followed by a vowel/medial is an initial: there
> are no initial consonant clusters. Any consonant not immediately
> followed by a vowel/medial is a final.
> Please also note for the above that the ‘zero’ initial ㅇ is just like
> any other initial that has to be input, and that ‘strong’ obstruents
> that are written like double consonants (‘geminates’) have their own key
> combination (SHIFT+‘weak’ obstruent) and count as simple initials.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> Ed Trager wrote:
>> Hi, again everyone!
>>
>> Dreiheller, Albrecht wrote:
>>
>>> I would use<Space><Backspace>.
>>> But I'm not Korean, so there might be a shorter way.
>>
>> Yes, that's what I did too. But<Space><Backspace> is surely too
>> *slow* to be practical for really typing Korean, n-est-ce pas?
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Charlie Ruland ☘<ruland@luckymail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> For Hangeul I use Microsft’s “Korean Input System (IME 2002)”, and
>>> what I do to ‘finalize’ an open syllable followed by an initial
>>> consonant is press the ESC key. (I have no idea what the officially
>>> recommended key is.)
>>
>> I did not think of the ESCAPE key. But ESCAPE also is not
>> conveniently located on the keyboard. So using ESCAPE also will be
>> relatively *slow*.
>>
>> I asked the question because I am working on writing some input method
>> software ... Checking both Microsoft's and Apple's documentation on
>> Korean Input Methods, I don't find anything describing which
>> "official" key is to be used to "finalize" such syllables ...
>>
>> - Ed
>>
>>
>
-- #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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