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* Introduction

Scim-hangul is a SCIM IMEngine module for inputing korean scripts. Scim-hangul
is for native speakers, not for foreigners. If you don't want to learn korean
keyboard layout, use scim-table :)
For SCIM, see: http://www.scim-im.org/

* Feature

This engine supports 2 beolsik, 3 beolsik final, 3 beolsik 390, 3 beolsik
no-shift and etc. You can input chinese character (hanja) with F9 key when you
have preedit string.

Check other korean input methods here:
http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/KoreanInputMethod

* Build instructions
Install SCIM
    You need SCIM to use scim-hangul. Install SCIM first. 
    See this URL: http://www.scim-im.org/

Download libhangul
    You need libhangul 0.0.12 or newer to build scim-hangul 0.4.0. You can
    download libhangul here:
    Project page: http://code.google.com/p/libhangul/
    Download page: http://code.google.com/p/libhangul/downloads/list

Build libhangul and install
    Follow this commands:

    $ ./configure --prefix=[where you want to install libhangul]
    $ make
    # make install

    If you want to install libhangul to system directory, you need to login
    as root.

Build and install scim-hangul
    Follow this commands:

    $ ./configure --prefix=[where you want to install scim-hangul]
    $ make
    # make install
    
    If you installed libhangul into different directory with pkgconfig, you may
    need to set environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH. For example, if you 
    installed libhangul in '/usr/local', you can set PKG_CONFIG_PATH as:

    in bash:
	$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig

    in csh:
	% set PKG_CONFIG_PATH /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig

* Usage
    If you installed SCIM correctly, you can see SCIM icon in Notification
    area (or system tray). Move the focus to some widgets which can input
    text and click the SCIM icon in Notification area, then you can see
    language selection menu. There, choose korean(or hangul). Now you can
    input korean.

    You can change keyboard layouts on SCIM palette.