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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Adam Oudad <adam.oudad@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Input method for Tifinagh (alphabet of the Berber language)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:04:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87msmhcu1h.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v817j0o1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:20:14 +0300")

>>>>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:20:14 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> 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.

    Eli>  . Anything else you think is needed for reasonable support of this
    Eli>    script.

(disclaimer: I know nothing about Tifinagh)

Adam, the quail rules you show donʼt cover all of the codepoints that Unicode
has defined for the Tifinagh script, it would be good if they were all
there (unless those codepoints are *really* never used, not even in
historical documents)

Robert
-- 



  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-16 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-14 16:51 Input method for Tifinagh (alphabet of the Berber language) Adam Oudad
2024-07-14 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-16 14:04   ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2024-07-26 13:53   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-12 23:37     ` Adam Oudad
2024-09-13  6:07       ` Eli Zaretskii

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