@HRZ
I've been using it for a while (albeit only Korean) and there is no way it should brick your N900.

You are awesome my friend. what a lifesaver, works like a breeze! I thought I'd have to wait another 3 months before someone developed a pinyin input app. thanks!
now if i can just get QQ on here... pidgin wont connect my account for some reason, maybe cuz im on the 2009 English QQ...oh well

also if there's an english=>pinyin dictionary I could install on the n900 that would be incredibly useful!!

Just an update:

Thanks to firstfan, I have received a test version of mscim-hangul.
This can input Korean properly. Works as good as on a computer now.
Finally, I can type Korean natively on the N900 from any app. =)
No need to copy and paste from GNU Emacs or some online site.
shift-space to switch back and forth between English and Korean input.

It's still not tidied up in terms of the gui popup during typing however. (missing icons etc)
So we will have to wait until firstfan does his thing and release it on extras-devel.

Regarding the Virtual Symbols Keyboard not working when you have mscim installed.... (Fn+Sym)

You can remap the hardware keyboard just by modifying "rx-51" file.

It's located at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/
Make sure to backup the original elsewhere before modifying it.

I just sftp'ed the file to my desktop, modified it, then copied it back to my phone.
You can also use leafpad to modify it. Type the following below with root priv.

leafpad /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51

You can remap pretty much every symbols shown on the ctrl-Sym virtual keyboard on to the hardware keys. (as a shift+bluearrow+KEY) It's extremely easy and I've mapped the keys 1 to 0 on top with the same symbols as my normal computer keyboard. I also assigned { and } as well as often used ~ and | and Tab and Esc to some other keys. Now I never have to press CTRL+Sym key to bring up the symbols menu. Very convenient when using the terminal often.

Some helpful threads:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35931
http://www.natisbad.org/N900/n900-ke...remapping.html

I used the info here for getting the names for the symbols in normal PC keyboard:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboar...ree/symbols/us

Could any Korean people help me to test the Korean locale and translation package?
It's in maemo extras-devel, and the package name is
N900-i18n-ko_KR

Only a little of strings are translated. If anyone has intresting about helping translating to Korean. Please contact me. firstfan@gmail.com

hI firstfan, I have tried the Korean locale / translation.

Only some simple things such as dates, time and some basic application icon names (such as contacts) seems to have been changed so far. I have found no problems while using it. You can contact me also if you need some translation done. =)

This is great to see progress on this subject because I am starting to pick up where I left off learning Chinese and Korean.
Pinyin would be very useful for me as usually I visualize the Chinese words in pinyin when trying to remember what to say.

im on the same boat, living in china. it would be great to get an offline english=>pinyin dictionary somehow. havent yet looked into Qdict or whatever its called.

yes soshi love baby ^^ my n900 has soshi all over it i want to make snsd theme T.T