From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: 11103@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11103: 24.0.94; (error "Can't activate input method `dev-aiba'")
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:00:56 +0530 [thread overview]
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Glenn
>
> You can ignore this mail, if you want.
>
> Rustom,
>
> Here is the context -
>
> > Sorry I dont get the context.
> > On my emacs 23.3.1 I can activate devanagari-aiba input method.
> > Is there something else you want me to check?
>
> Are you activating the input method like this -
>
> 1. C-x C-m l Devanagari
> 2. C-\
>
> Do you see a crash like this -
>
If I do it like you say I only see
Can't activate input method `dev-aiba'
No backtrace.
If I do what I usually do ie C-x RET C-\
and then give devanagari-aiba (not dev-aiba) it seems to work for me
My preferences later (I'll look more carefully at both)
Rusi
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't activate input method
> `dev-aiba'")
> signal(error ("Can't activate input method `dev-aiba'"))
> error("Can't activate input method `%s'" "dev-aiba")
> activate-input-method("dev-aiba")
> toggle-input-method(nil 1)
> call-interactively(toggle-input-method nil nil)
>
> > I dont know this input method (and google does not help)
>
> See [1]. They apparently has something to do with diacritic marks
> (whatever that means).
>
> > but looking at describe-input-method and trying out a bit it seems
> > very close (identical??) to itrans.
>
> See [2]. The table that compares two methods and is attached here for
> future reference. There are 12 entries in that table where the aiba and
> itrans input methods differ.
>
> I was wondering, as someone who is more familiar with Devanagari which
> of these would you prefer as the input method. If you think that you
> have no particular opinion, I think we can leave the defaults as such.
>
> Here is an entry for SHA.
>
> ,---- DEVANAGARI LETTER SHA with devanagari-itrans is mapped to "sha"
> | position: 9395 of 15548 (60%), column: 31
> | character: श (displayed as श) (codepoint 2358, #o4466, #x936)
> | preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> | code point in charset: 0x0936
> | syntax: w which means: word
> | category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), i:Indian
> | to input: type "sha" with devanagari-itrans
> | buffer code: #xE0 #xA4 #xB6
> | file code: #xE0 #xA4 #xB6 (encoded by coding system
> utf-8-dos)
> | display: by this font (glyph code)
> |
> uniscribe:-outline-Mangal-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1
> (#x9E)
> |
> | Character code properties: customize what to show
> | name: DEVANAGARI LETTER SHA
> | general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
> | decomposition: (2358) ('श')
> |
> | [back]
> `----
>
> ,---- DEVANAGARI LETTER SHA with devanagari-itrans is mapped to "^sa"
> | position: 2855 of 5721 (50%), column: 22
> | character: श (displayed as श) (codepoint 2358, #o4466, #x936)
> | preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> | code point in charset: 0x0936
> | syntax: w which means: word
> | category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), i:Indian
> | to input: type "^sa" with devanagari-aiba
> | buffer code: #xE0 #xA4 #xB6
> | file code: #xE0 #xA4 #xB6 (encoded by coding system
> utf-8-dos)
> | display: by this font (glyph code)
> |
> uniscribe:-outline-Mangal-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1
> (#x9E)
> |
> | Character code properties: customize what to show
> | name: DEVANAGARI LETTER SHA
> | general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
> | decomposition: (2358) ('श')
> |
> | [back]
> `----
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [1] http://texa.human.is.tohoku.ac.jp/aiba/codes/table/draft/r02/html/
>
> Document has following particulars.
>
> ,----
> | Word Processing in Tibetan and Sanskrit
> | Toru AIBA
> |
> | Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
> | March 2000
> |
> | Handout for my presentation at "Fourth International Symposium on
> | Multilingual Information Processing" at Tsukuba in March 26, 2000.
> `----
>
> [2] Image captioned "Table 3: Transliteration Schemes in Sanskrit
> (Substitutional)",
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-31 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 19:00 bug#11103: 24.0.94; (error "Can't activate input method `dev-aiba'") Jambunathan K
2012-03-27 20:40 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-30 18:09 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-30 18:47 ` Jambunathan K
2012-03-31 6:09 ` Rustom Mody
2012-03-31 7:58 ` Jambunathan K
2012-03-31 14:30 ` Rustom Mody [this message]
2012-03-31 8:46 ` Jambunathan K
2012-03-31 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 18:15 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-31 19:26 ` Jambunathan K
2012-03-31 20:07 ` Glenn Morris
[not found] ` <handler.11103.D11103.133322449019128.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2012-04-03 4:55 ` bug#11103: closed (Re: bug#11103: 24.0.94; (error "Can't activate input method `dev-aiba'")) Jambunathan K
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