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: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:53:11 +0300 Message-ID: <86msm42raw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86v817j0o1.fsf@gnu.org> 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="7205"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: adam.oudad@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 26 15:53:57 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 1sXLOP-0001en-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:53:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sXLNk-00077a-Q0; Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:53:16 -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 1sXLNi-0006zL-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:53:14 -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 1sXLNi-0005vA-Io; Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:53:14 -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=B39LYZZDi/ydjONCkIXnlNb3qU27wXZjPtXXzxgTiB4=; b=ftWpNPZ0TGcaON5zUz+5 vcc7fClkaTm52IIaPNuf3Tvn3lJo8N8K7He144cffSL4mEgcLgjFW9e0umYPCaNH9u70bh6b/1ABr 1S9krawF9ZSDg4+bHomuezQoko8b6qxU7Jfpiv4E2hOokH+n2M0FXq+uhGz/uVjoxanO08J7x0MTS 0JRgN7q3lNh8B/TyyCEMFnVCVOqg+aJ16fEwjk+FVBcQKdYI+s6Xa2z9CT1YRLw2UZCYmO03bNfUc 0P0OMi5SP9wi4o2Ak6pU4etcRkMFGfUtEJ+2bxY336oLlpRKmXaY/pcKN8YryfFaXjysFvEYX7+kG WXFIhwzpevWAZA==; In-Reply-To: <86v817j0o1.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:20:14 +0300) 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:322107 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:20:14 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > 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. No further comments, so I've now added the necessary bits and installed this on the master branch.