Comment 27 for bug 475240

I very much agree with iGEL in many ways. Korean fonts and input method were far better in Jaunty than in Karmic.

I've had to do a lot of guessing just to get readable Korean fonts by adjusting the default fonts in System>Preferences>Appearance and had to adjust separately in Firefox's Preferences>Content>Fonts & Colors>Advanced>Fonts for: Korean.

And to use reasonable fonts in NateOn (Korea's very popular messenger), using the qtconfig program in the repos (which says it's specifically for fixing CJK fonts for KDE programs in Gnome) does nothing except make a config file unused by programs... so I had to copy the relevant font parts from that to the ~/.kde/share/configkdeglobals file.

Also, IBus for Korean doesn't even have the ability to enter very commonly-used special characters like Scim and MS' IME do, yet it automatically replaces Scim...

I think it's very important for every aspect of the languages on Linux to be easily found and configurable. It's important that multiple fonts can be used at the same time (for translators, language-learners, etc). Also, it's very important for font, language, and input method options to be very easy to find and change (the Language Support program was almost the only reason I ever considered Ubuntu when I started using Linux because it was impossibly difficult to change the language when I was a new user and trying LiveCD distros).

I hope I didn't go too far off topic, sorry, but this simple issue has caused a lot of problems for me since starting Linux. Thanks for the attention to the issue~