It looks like Java's Swing components support Hangul Comaptibility Jamo (KO). However, there is another unicode cart, Hangul Jamo, with similar looking chars which are not supported by Java. I believe Microsoft is using the second one.

Question is ... are we supposed to support only one of the unicode charts or both?

I am attaching an image file (ko_bug.bmp) with character comparasions and a test suite (keyboard_5.zip) to generate those characters.

To execute on Win2000/XP:
1. install korean layout with MS keyboard
2. cd keyboard-part1/bin/Keyboard
3. set JAVA_HOME with a "/" in the path
4. sh run.sh layout

The property file included in the .zip for KO works. To see data from Hangul Jamo that fails, substitute layout_ko_doesntwork.properties instead of a regular file in keyboard-part1/data/Keyboard (remove "doesntwork" tag).

If the image file got corrupted while transfer you can find it at http://javaweb/~dv139363/keyboard/ko_bug/
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