Monday 1 August 2016

How to display Korean characters on openSUSE Leap 42.1

If you do a web search for this you will find a confusing amount of information for various distros. Some of it will relate to Korean keyboard input. At the moment I just want to display Korean characters instead of a square box with the Unicode; input comes later.

It turns out that the openSUSE developers have made it really easy. Here is the Reddit post that solved my problem: Korean fonts in openSUSE

There isn't much I can add to this solution except to mention that it installed a whole bunch of packages to cater for input methods (several, which I intend to explore later), KDE, Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird), Libreoffice, and even GIMP. So all those subsystems are sorted out in one fell swoop.

The other thing I want to mention is that other languages can be added to the secondary support list in YaST so presumably this solution will work for those.

I'm sorry if this doesn't help you with other distros. Hopefully your distro implemented a comprehensive solution in the configuration tool. Try that before you delve too deeply into the system.

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