||South Korea (한국), North Korea (조선), Korean Chinese(조선족), Koreans in Japan (재일동포), Koreans in the USA (재미교포), Koreans in the old Soviet Unions (고려인).
(한글), the writing system used in Korean, is included in Unicode 1100~11FF as Hangul Jamo. It is the only writing system
used by a major language that was created specifically for that language (unlike the writing system used in English, for example, which comes from Latin alphabet, which was in turn adapted from other writing systems). It was created by King Sejong
and scholars in the Hall of Worthies
between AD 1443~1526.
- Character sets
- Unicode supported.
- Script layout
- is left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Fully supported by Pango the layout engine chosen.
- see Hangul
- OLPC Korean Keyboard will fully supports the language
- Input methods
- except for 'standard' keyboard and touchpad would suffice for general use, although special considerations would be needed for physical disabilities.
- Speech synthesis
- there is not so wide variances region to region compared to other languages such as Chinese.
- Dictionaries, Spelling Checkers, Thesaurus
- are very much developed in Korean
- Korean is treated as a single language unit, without regional/national divisions. Code:ko Name: Korean Script: Hangul Jamo Available: Status:
- coming soon.
- coming soon..
- coming soon...
- Character recognition
ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ
ㅏ, ㅑ, ㅓ, ㅕ, ㅗ, ㅛ, ㅜ, ㅠ, ㅡ, ㅣ
- Traditionally, dates are all numeric in the YY/MM/DD or YYYY/MM/DD. if necessary, the day of week is written at the last. In the formula official document of government, it separated by dot and white space(YYYY. MM. DD.) and has not the day of week.
- use the -9,999.99 format (coma for thousands and period for decimal, prefix sign).
- KRW, won. -￦9,999.99
48,000,000 South Korea official (2006)
22,200,000 North Korea estimation (2002)
1,600,000 Koreans in Japan estimation (2002)
1,900,000 Korean Chinese official (2006)
200,000 Korean in Old Soviet estimation (2006)
2,000,000 Korean in the USA estimation (2006)