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

[K. Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Shantha kumar <address@hidden> writes:

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

Thank you very much for the cooperation.  I've just
committed Srikanth's patch for ta-phonetic.mim and
ta-tamil99.mim.

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden


> 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 
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In article
>>> <address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>>,
>>> Srikanth Lakshmanan <address@hidden
>>> <mailto: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
>>> <mailto: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.
>>> 
>>> -- 
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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