Installing Korean support on Windows Mobile 6.5

I was successful last weekend to set up Korean for my new HTC Imagio smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.5. It took some digging and in the end there was no real "how-to".

I followed some links in the user comments at the blog I wrote about earlier that had some registry key manipulation suggestions for adding Korean font to a phone.

First I downloaded this font pack 'Korean_font.cab',
http://www.careace.net/2008/11/11/korean-font-for-samsung-epix-download/
I can't really verify the source or speak to security of this file. It seems to have worked without noticeable downsides, I would say download at your own risk.

I copied this to my memory card in my phone via USB then executed it. One downside: I found I did seemingly have to reset my phone every time I disconnected my USB for it to recognize my memory card, which is odd.

Executing the cab from the Folder View on the phone worked, no problems. I think I did a Soft Reset afterward.

Second, I downloaded another .cab from a user's comment post

#42 Written By punkwhan on August 3rd, 2009 @ 11:50 pm
If you want write hangul.
You can you moakey keyboard from samsung.
Download link below.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WV1PF7WC

This download link brought me to 'Moakey2.0.0528.rar'. This provides a Hanguel keyboard input method that you can switch to when typing in any application. Again it worked for me, I haven't noticed any spyware, but I have no idea where this comes from.

The .rar contained four versions of the .cab, I suppose for different screen resolution phones. I picked Moakey2.0.0528_WVGA.cab, copied to my memory card, rebooted the phone and then installed. It did have a Korean "installation" wizard, presumeably if you want to use this to write Korean you can navigate your way through that. I don't understand the options but it seemed to be a way to configure the "style" of your korean keyboard, the way I set it up seems to be more like a cell phone input method than a computer keyboard layout.

Installation went ok, after reboot by default I get the Hanguel keyboard, and you can easily switch back to the default provided QWERTY keyboard from an arrow next to the keyboard icon at the bottom when ever you can input text in an app.

So far so good an no compatibility problems.