RE: Korean alphabet

thanks for those links and info Greg, Jason and John,
I will look into this a bit more closely over the weekend but I think you're
right, I may need help choosing the right letters/combinations to make it
work.

many thanks

Stefan



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At 12:59 AM 1/28/5, Stefan Richter - Flashcomguru.com wrote:
>Bit of strange question today but does anyone on this list speak 
>Korean? I need a copy of the Korean alphabet in the form of a movieclip 
>or broken down font to use in a flashcom app. Are there many characters 
>in the Korean alphabet?

Another link, in addition to the good ones from Greg and Jason:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/korean.htm
   (Contains background info, downloadable fonts, more... site is great)

SWF work is indeed hot in Korea... a lot of the momentum here is on mobile
devices, but the broadband rate is very significant too.

The cool thing about the "fridge magnets" problem in Korean is that the
writing system is structured differently than the "string of letters" we see
in Latin-based languages. There's a finite set of 24 consonants and vowels,
but these are used to make up a greater number of syllables, and when you
look at a single "letter" in a page of Korean it might have three
consonant/vowel characters arranged within it.

I don't know how many actual "letters" there are in the syllabic sense, but
I see a few hundred combinations in this Unicode chart (in PDF):
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UAC00.pdf

Because there are more syllables than keys on a keyboard, a typist would
need some type of multi-key entry system to make each character group in a
sentence. I'm not sure how much variance there is in such Input Method
Editors (IMEs).

(Although schoolchildren in South Korea are also taught 1800 Chinese
characters, from what I understand a fridge-magnet app seems like it would
be able to use just the hangul syllabary system.)

I'm sorry I don't know how to answer this, but I do know of an additional
resource... in the Korean-language Macromedia newsgroup someone might have
practical ideas on how to approach such a project:
news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.general.korea

Or have you thought about putting a link on the current project, describing
how you'd like to make a version in Korean, and asking for people to contact
you if they see a way to proceed...?




At 5:02 AM 1/28/5, <Jason-KRHSgQQ45+w/N4CUxbK1KQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I live in VA and I use English version of FMX 2004...  The thing is 
> that if I type Korean in the textField, it becomes one of those '??' 
> characters even if I have proper Korean fonts installed...

This combo I'm not sure of, sorry... I do know that the tools have been
localized into Korean*, but I'm not sure of the full extent (and system
requirements) for entering Korean characters into the English version.
* http://www.macromedia.com/kr/


jd





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