From: Ed Trager (ed.trager@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 07 2010 - 19:27:05 CST
Hi, Jeroen and everyone,
In the Korean input method that I am implementing, I'm currently using
semicolon ";" as the key to press to manually mark the end of a
syllable.
(My thinking on this was that whatever key I use should be readily and
easily accessible on the keyboard layout. Semicolon seems easily
accessible, and I was thinking that semicolon is probably not used
very often in Korean text. If one does want to insert a semicolon,
one can still do that of course - for example, in the worst case, just
type a space character and then type the semicolon.)
But I am still thinking of implementing the automatic way of "pulling
out" a previous terminating consonant to become the initial consonant
of a new hangul as Curtis Clark has described it and as is apparently
common in Korean IMEs.
So if I do implement that too, then in theory I'll have the best of
both worlds: Manual way of ending a syllable (where ";" is converted
to HANGUL FILLER) and still have the automated way to allow faster
typing in the general cases.
Well, that's the theory anyway ... any comments?
- Ed
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
<asmodai@in-nomine.org> wrote:
> -On [20100107 02:16], Curtis Clark (jcclark-lists@earthlink.net) wrote:
>>The syllable "chik" briefly appears, but as soon as she typed the jamo
>>for "a", the "k" was pulled away from "chik", making it "chi", and added
>>to "ka". Since no syllable can start with a vowel jamo (if the first
>>sound is a vowel, the first jamo is "ㅇ"), the entered vowel will always
>>steal the last consonant from the previous syllable.
>
> That's all nice and dandy, but Korean also knows a lot of ambiguous words
> where, depending on where you end the syllable, the word means one thing or
> the other, but you'd type them in the same way on a Latin-based keyboard.
>
> Can't at the moment remember an example, but just pulling jamo left or right
> does not always cut it. You *will* need a manual way of marking off a
> syllable end.
>
> --
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai
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> Want ik kan niet leven zonder alles of niets...
>
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