Re: About Type Khmer in Emacs

Re: About Type Khmer in Emacs

[buddy]

> Yes, it seems like you have the opportunity to make yourself a name as
> emacs hacker by writing a kmer input-method.

^_^So surprising about that, I'm just a user not a hacker. But if you
can tell me where to start maybe I will give a try.Thanks!

Re: About Type Khmer in Emacs

[B. T. Raven]

buddy wrote:
>> Yes, it seems like you have the opportunity to make yourself a name as
>> emacs hacker by writing a kmer input-method.
> 
> ^_^So surprising about that, I'm just a user not a hacker. But if you
> can tell me where to start maybe I will give a try.Thanks!
> 


It's a somewhat advanced topic but it may be doable by a non-hacker with
a little luck. I tried to make a hebrew-babel input method for ver. 21.3
and got it to work somewhat. It might be easier now with ver. 23.2 since
the internal representaion is unicode. Make your own copies of
emacs/leim/leim-list.el and emacs/leim/quail/ thai.el and lao.el and see
if you can understand what's going on with them. You can get the glyphs
for Khmer from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_script


Good luck. It's easy to cause emacs to freeze (even to the point of
requiring an OS reboot) while you are testing but you can (usually?) get
control by reverting  to the original file versions in the leim and
leim/quail directories.