Issue 4812 in chromium-os: Support 'Kor/Eng' (한/영) and 'Hanja' keys on Korean keyboard.

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Status: Assigned
Owner: yus...@chromium.org
CC: js...@chromium.org, sato...@chromium.org, su...@chromium.org,
zo...@chromium.org, ma...@chromium.org, ko...@chromium.org
Labels: Type-Feature Pri-3 Area-TextInput I18N Mstone-X

New issue 4812 by yus...@chromium.org: Support 'Kor/Eng' (한/영)
and 'Hanja' keys on Korean keyboard.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=4812

Copied from http://crosbug.com/2543#c34

The Korean IME has a key similar to Japanese IME's "Eisu". It's 'Kor/Eng'
(한/영) key for switching between Korean and English. It also has 'Hanja'
key for character/word conversion to Hanja (Chinese characters).
We should support them.

[chrom...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 4812 by yus...@chromium.org: Support 'Kor/Eng' (한/영)

and 'Hanja' keys on Korean keyboard.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=4812

Setting Pri-3 and Mstone-X since the Chrome OS keyboard does not have the
keys (correct me if i'm wrong). However, for Chromium OS, it'd be better to
support them.

[chrom...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 4812 by yus...@chromium.org: Support 'Kor/Eng' (한/영)

and 'Hanja' keys on Korean keyboard.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=4812

Jungshik, can you please let me know X11 keysyms of the keys when you have
time? I don't have a Korean USB keyboard.

Here is the instruction (just in case):

1. connect a Korean USB keyboard to your netbook.
2. boot Chromium OS
3. login
4. make sure you're using the "US" layout
5. press ctrl+alt+t
6. on the command line prompt, start xev
7. hover the mouse cursor on xev window and press the 'Kor/Eng' key
8. press ctrl+tab to switch back to xterm
9. check X11 keysym of the key. Please find a line like:

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x5400001,
root 0x27a, subw 0x5400002, time 2338996875, (28,42), root:(42,126),
state 0x11, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,

10. Do the same thing for the 'Hanja' key


I would like to know whether the US XKB layout supports 'Kor/Eng'
and 'Hanja' keys or not. I guess it's not supported on Chrome/Chromium OS
since HNGL and HJCV keycodes, that are defined in
/build/x86-generic/usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86, do not appear in
/build/x86-generic/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols.

// Keys that are generated on Korean keyboards
alias <HNGL> = <FK16>; // Hangul Latin toggle
alias <HJCV> = <FK17>; // Hangul to Hanja conversion

("Evdev Standardized Keycodes" section in
/build/x86-generic/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet converts HNGL to Hangul,
HJCV to Hangul_Hanja, but it's for evdev which we don't use.)

Thanks!

[chrom...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Owner: js...@chromium.org
Cc: yusu...@chromium.org

Comment #3 on issue 4812 by yus...@chromium.org: Support 'Kor/Eng' (한/영)

and 'Hanja' keys on Korean keyboard.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=4812

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Updates:
Owner: yusu...@chromium.org

Comment #4 on issue 4812 by yus...@chromium.org: Support 'Kor/Eng' (한/영)

and 'Hanja' keys on Korean keyboard.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=4812

I'll work on it.