From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33024: 26.1.50; the ethiopic input method does not allow the insertion of a very frequent character Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:14:00 +0300 Message-ID: <83tvlquuuv.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539418387 21883 195.159.176.226 (13 Oct 2018 08:13:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 08:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 33024@debbugs.gnu.org To: yilkal argaw Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 13 10:13:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF2l-0005cX-76 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:13:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF4r-0004nP-DV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42871) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF4j-0004nJ-PQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF4g-0004Yf-Ly for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:43446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF4g-0004YT-IF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF4g-0006fo-9w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:15:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 08:15:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33024 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33024-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33024.153941844725564 (code B ref 33024); Sat, 13 Oct 2018 08:15:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33024) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Oct 2018 08:14:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47704 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF3m-0006eD-4q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:14:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33128) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF3k-0006dX-F5 for 33024@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF3c-0003qm-Ab for 33024@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF3c-0003qe-5S; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3406 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gBF3b-0004Uc-Ok; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:13:56 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from yilkal argaw on Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:13:21 +0300) 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: 208.118.235.43 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:151197 Archived-At: > From: yilkal argaw > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:13:21 +0300 > > I tried to use emacs for typing in Amharic the largest language that currently > uses the Geez-script characters and some Geez to (the latin of > Ethiopia). The ethipic input method does not allow for the insertion of > አ character when pressing a . It rather inserts ኣ. The two letters > sound the same but they are used differently. አ is very frequent in > Amharic and Geez (I think it is one of the top 10 frequent > characters). ኣ on the other hand is less frequent and not often use. > Some language like Tigrigna and Tigre use the ኣ character more often > than Amharic but the frequency of አ in those languages is very high > too. I think you can have what you want if you do this: (setq ethio-primary-language 'amharic) (ethio-select-a-translation) Without this, the default primary language is tigrigna. I don't know anything about Ethiopic languages, so I don't know how reasonable is the default we use. (I also think the defvar's at the beginning of ethio-util.el should be defcustoms.) > So this behavoiour should be altered to allow insertion of both አ > and ኣ through variations in of the A key as: > a:(1/1) 1.አ > a2:(1/1) 1.ኣ > a3:(1/1) 1.ዓ > ae:(1/1) 1.ዐ > aaa:(1/1) 1.ዓ > aa:(1/1) 1.ዐ > aaaa(1/1) 1. ዓ Maybe we could have an alternative input method that worked like above, since this is an incompatible change. Thanks.