From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34215: 27.0.50; Provide elisp access to Chinese pinyin-to-character mapping Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:48:10 +0200 Message-ID: <83a7jl51c5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87imyafyts.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83r2cy3y69.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7jmf06v.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83ef8y3r40.fsf@gnu.org> <875zu9gb96.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="173338"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 34215@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 27 20:49:11 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqQZ-000iz6-3L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:49:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49812 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqQX-00050d-PT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqQR-00050V-DN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqQQ-0005qL-PE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqQQ-0005qC-KK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:49:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqQQ-0007uq-HG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:49:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:49:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 34215 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 34215-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B34215.154861852530406 (code B ref 34215); Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:49:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34215) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Jan 2019 19:48:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47986 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqQ9-0007uM-KK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35686) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqQ8-0007u9-TN for 34215@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqPw-0005Xt-5p; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3016 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gnqPp-0008IA-Mj; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:48:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <875zu9gb96.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:18:29 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:154826 Archived-At: > From: Eric Abrahamsen > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:18:29 -0800 > > >> PS: pinyin.map is ancient and is missing a lot of good correspondences. > >> Google's pinyin input method uses a much larger map, licensed with > >> Apache v2.0. This[1] seems to indicate that Apache 2.0 is okay for Gnu > >> projects, maybe we could consider switching to that map? > > > > Maybe. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about these input methods > > to tell whether replacing the file is a good idea. I wonder who can > > we ask about this. > > It's more or less a drop-in replacement -- the format of the data would > be the same, only a bit more of it. I understand, but I wonder if someone could try that for a while and see if it makes better input method(s), before we decide to import it. > I'm not sure who is "in charge" of these files, though. No one, I'm afraid. Not these days.