Korean input works everywhere except TeXworks

Max

12/24/22, 12:35 AM

I followed the instructions here to enable Hangeul (Korean) typing on my Ubuntu 20.04 installation using IBusHangul.

Everything works perfectly fine except in TeXworks and TeXmaker. In both programs, if I switch to the Korean keyboard layout, pressing backspace produces the character （, pressing the left arrow key produces ｑ, and pressing the right arrow key produces ｓ. (Notice these are fixed-width character entities instead of the usual (, q, and s.

I thought this issue was particular to TeXworks, but searching around, I found people reporting similar issues with Vim and Vi (both links are in Korean, unfortunately). In the former case, the reported solution was to make the following changes to the Vim config:

set number                           " show line numbers
set tabstop=4                        " set tab to 4 spaces
set ignorecase                       " ignore case in text searches
set hlsearch                         " highlight text when searching
set nocompatible                     " move using arrow keys
set fileencodings=utf-8,euc-kr       " encoding to use when saving files: utf-8, euc-kr
set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,euc-kr       " Korean files in euc-kr, Unicode files in utf-8
set bs=indent,eol,start              " make backspace usable
set ruler                            " show location in the status bar
set title                            " show title
set showmatch                        " show matching brackets
syntax on                            " syntax highlighting

Which of these settings are actually necessary for Korean input to work, and how can I achieve the same in TeXworks (and TeXmaker)?

Is it possible to avoid using the obsolete EUC-KR encoding?

Ubuntu version: 20.04
TeXworks version: 0.6.6 (MiKTeX 21.6)
TeXmaker version: 5.0.3
IBus version: IBus 1.5.22

Perhaps the issue is with the Qt framework, which is used by both TeXworks and TeXmaker.

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Sadaharu Wakisaka

12/24/22, 1:51 AM

Welcome to AskUbuntu, I am not sure, but both Qt and Unicode CKJ Font things should be set properly. https://texwiki.texjp.org/?TeXworks https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15516/how-to-write-japanese-with-latex In order to type or save it. Check which font is used onto your TeXWorks.

Max

12/27/22, 12:56 AM

Thank you. Unfortunately, the issue does not arise when compiling TeX documents. For example, if I write a document in Gedit, then *open* it in TeXworks and press compile, there are no problems. It's just the editor itself that doesn't work. I also changed the TeXworks interface font to a CKJ KR font with no effect.

Ray

12/27/22, 3:29 AM

I don't use TeXworks and can't help you with that (sorry!), but since Korean works elsewhere, if no one can give you a better solution, perhaps you can try `kile` to see if that works for you?

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Korean input works everywhere except TeXworks

TH: อินพุตภาษาเกาหลีใช้งานได้ทุกที่ยกเว้น TeXworks

RO: Intrarea coreeană funcționează peste tot, cu excepția TeXworks

RU: Корейский ввод работает везде, кроме TeXworks

VI: Đầu vào tiếng Hàn hoạt động ở mọi nơi trừ TeXworks

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