Re: Bulgarian language environment

[Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>]

Dave Love wrote:
> > Ognyan Kulev writes:
> > Phonetic input method is the dominant in Bulgaria, but BDS
> > (Bulgarian Country Standard keyboard layout) is important too.  BDS
> > is much more suited for fast typing and some people love it very
> > much.
> 
> I guess you will have to sign a copyright assignment paper for that to
> be included in Emacs.  I can change the default input method.  It is
> currently cyrillic-translit-bulgarian, because that existed in Emacs
> 20 -- for Bulgarian when it's included.

I got a positive answer from copyright-clerk@fsf.org that my assignment 
is delivered (finally).

>  > As a bulgarian there are two points of interest:
> 
>  > 1. Using windows-1251 for loading and storing files/buffers.
>  > 2. Using both bulgarian phonetic and bulgarian standard input
>  >    methods.
> 
> Sure.  [That's easy for languages generally, given tables for the
> charset and input methods as Unicode.]
> 
>  >     (Probably as different language environments as i've done.)
> 
> It isn't normal to provide environments for different input methods,
> but I don't think there's a good (obvious) way for users to customize
> language input methods.  (Probably Custom could put something on the
> appropriate hook).

Here are URLs for reference:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-emacs/2001-December/thread.html#9313
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-emacs/2002-January/thread.html#9497

There are no reported problems with bulgarian.el since then.

Regards
-- 
Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""