Re: [m17n-list] m17n Tamil changes - Help required

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

Hi,

Can you please test the changes[1] for adding missing characters ஶ்,க்‌ஷ் (non conjunct) series, symbols and fixing SRI ஶ்ரீ as per Unicode 4.1 guidelines. Thanks.

[1] https://gist.github.com/srikanthlogic/9614477

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Shantha kumar <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,
  Please let me know if I can help in any ways related to Tamil..!

On 03/24/2014 12:05 PM, Parag Nemade wrote:

Hi,

On 03/20/2014 11:19 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:

Hi Handa,

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:31 PM, K. Handa <address@hidden> wrote:

In article <address@hidden>, Srikanth Lakshmanan <address@hidden> writes:

> I need your help in making changes to m17n tamil files.  

Thank you very much for the contribution.  Could you please
send the patch, an entry in Changelog file, and a rationale
for the change to me or to address@hidden.

Thank you very much for your reply. I was able to figure out that just putting mim files on m17n folder will help me test. I have updated the gist[1] with changes for ta-phonetic.mim, ta-tamil99.mim and patch files. entry in Changelog file would be 'Adding missing characters ஶ்,க்‌ஷ் (non conjunct) series, symbols and fixing SRI ஶ்ரீ as per Unicode 4.1 guidelines.'

Rationale behind the change 

1. Character ஶ் SHA and its vowel series was introduced in Unicode 4.1 and the definition of SRII was changed from U+0BB8 U+0BCD U+0BB0 U+0BC0 to U+0BB6 U+0BCD U+0BB0 U+0BC0 [2]. Added keys for SHA, modified SRII to be inline with latest Unicode standard.

2. There was no provision for entry of non conjunct க்‌ஷ் (KSH with a Zero Width Non Joiner inbetween) in both these layouts. They are now added.

3. I have also fixed couple of bugs, added missing symbols in ta-tamil99.mim and is now perfectly inline with the latest standard reference published[3] by Gov of Tamil Nadu. 

I have tested both these layouts and the changes with test cases of Wikimedia IME[4] and they are fine. I have also added comments on both the mim files about the changes. Please let me know if you require more information for making the change.

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Regards
Srikanth.L

[1] https://gist.github.com/srikanthlogic/9614477

[2] http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05129-tamil-named.txt

[3] http://www.tamilvu.org/tkbd/doc_file/Help_windows.pdf

[4] https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/blob/master/test/jquery.ime.test.fixtures.js

I am adding to Shantha who can help in this issue. Also request not to use these email ids for Tamil keymap issues ifelix<AT>redhat.com and jnansi<AT>redhat.com.

Regards,
Parag

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Regards
Srikanth.L