Editing Korean language and computers (section)

{{Short description|Input and use of Korean on computers}}
{{Technical|date=July 2022}}
{{Use American English|date = February 2019}}
{{Use mdy dates|date = February 2019}}
[[File:Samsung K652V.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|A South Korean keyboard using Dubeolsik layout.]]

The [[Hangul|writing system]] of the [[Korean language]] is a syllabic alphabet of character parts ({{lang|ko-Latn|jamo}}) organized into character blocks ({{lang|ko|글자}}; {{lang|ko-Latn|geulja}}) representing [[syllable]]s. The character parts cannot be written from left to right on the computer, as in many Western languages. Every possible syllable in Korean would have to be rendered as syllable blocks by a [[Computer font|font]], or each character part would have to be [[Code|encoded]] separately. [[Unicode]] has both options; the character parts {{lang|ko|ㅎ}} (h) and {{lang|ko|ㅏ}} (a), and the combined syllable {{lang|ko|하}} (ha), are encoded.