From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method for Tifinagh (alphabet of the Berber language) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:20:14 +0300 Message-ID: <86v817j0o1.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1332"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adam Oudad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 14 20:21:52 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sT3r5-000Aba-RU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:21:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sT3q8-0008Ek-6E; Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:20:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sT3q6-0008Eb-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sT3q5-0004n4-Vx; Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:20:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=eFKQUnQ6eieP2ra4X3KE45zu2lG+AFB69grjxvBuB0c=; b=X6zF9eLlrexPm5XcnCye JcuvFW/oNtmT6hbQ64b2Bz06WCrhRZ24Ji2MJP/XYl5Jb14u+L6aJMA8cufQSUUjy7KyxvPB4VYHQ 631CeaUiPI5jgOZNBfyPU8PBDErkiM5AEJhqBRPA5Jaoxp8AW6wcroOk5LqkNBHdLRdey967tgkbR wueZsnx1pXEFpTSEf6XDX1K3yNIKdqwxWo19kMvgofUO8crAfTaCQeqfrCGRUmFlLHS2yrZmVJynW AUyPIAqg+fnCykuet/hAwXwSIcYbXE/u1Q+1GfLmpLGlLp4Gvnkvw9ESid2I3QO00Tf3Rp4C4w/j3 psmfO8zSfe0I/w==; In-Reply-To: (message from Adam Oudad on Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:51:06 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:321651 Archived-At: > From: Adam Oudad > 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.