Re: Input method for Tifinagh (alphabet of the Berber language)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Adam Oudad <adam.oudad@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:51:06 +0900
> 
> As a daily user of GNU Emacs 29.3 and a native speaker of the Berber language, spoken in North African
> countries such as Morocco, I regret the inability to input characters from the Tifinagh (can be pronounced
> "tee-fee-nar") alphabet, the alphabet used by the Berber language.
> 
> So I wrote a quail package for inputting Tifinagh and thought it would be a nice addition to the input methods
> already available inside Emacs.
> 
> I based my implementation on arabic.el for the arabie input method, and just remapped the keys to the
> correct phonetic symbols.
> 
> Your feedback will be much appreciated.

Thanks.  This is okay, and I will install it soon, but can we extend
the support for Tifinagh, so we have for it everything we have for
other scripts and languages?  Here's what we need:

 . For a Tifinagh line in etc/HELLO:
   - The name of the script/language as written in itself (I believe
     it's ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ, is that right?)
   - A greeting ("hello") in this language
 . For adding a Tifinagh language environment: the suitable
   set-language-info-alist form (see examples in misc-lang.el for what
   needs to be specified there)
 . Anything else you think is needed for reasonable support of this
   script.

(The above should be still small enough for us to be able to accept
such a contribution from you without copyright assignment, but I would
encourage you to start your copyright assignment paperwork
nonetheless, so that we could accept contributions from you in the
future as well, without any limitations.  If you agree, I will send
you the form to fill to start the paperwork rolling.)

Thanks again for your interest in Emacs.