Re: New layout for Newa

[handa]

In article <s9dmtso6mtr.fsf@taka.site>, Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com> writes:
> If you make a new release it might be useful to include the patches
> we have in Fedora for m17n-db. They are here:

> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/m17n-db/tree/rawhide

> The m17n-db-1.8.0-inscript2-mni-sat.patch is for the
> inscript2-20160423.tar.gz tarball which is added in the Fedora rpm.
> This tarball adds inscript input methods which are according to the
> newest standard from

> https://standardsbis.bsbedge.com/BIS_searchstandard.aspx?Standard_Number=IS+16350&id=22277

> Somebody recently reported the the inscript layouts are not according to
> the standard:

> https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n/issues/30

> But it looks like he was mistaken and didn’t test the inscript2 methods
> added in Fedora.

> Parag Nemade (CC:) is checking once more whether everything agrees with
> the standard, if yes it might be useful to include these inscript2
> methods as well upstream.

Thank you for the info.  I'll include them.

> A while ago I wrote a si-sayura.mim, see:

> https://github.com/mike-fabian/m17n-db-sayura

> This might also be useful to include upstream.

> It is a rewrite of the ibus-sayura input method which is written in C,
> I made it behave exactly like ibus-sayura.

> It is nice to have this in m17n-db as well because then one can use it
> with ibus-m17n and also with ibus-typing-booster (which has additional
> features like word completion not available in ibus-sayura).

> This input method for IPA X-SAMPA might also be interesting:

> https://github.com/mike-fabian/m17n-db-ipa-x-sampa

Ok.  I'll include that too.

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K. Handa
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