Re: [m17n-list] Questions about hi-itrans.mim

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, विश्वासो वासुकेयः / Vishvas Vasuki 
<address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Kenichisan, It is working as intended, but I just realized that my
> initial suggestions were not very smart: _ to anudAtta, and '' to svarita/
> udAtta mark are more appropriate. They would be more attractive for the
> following reasons:
> a] They would be more intuitive.
> b] They would not conflict with the separate (more useful) request
> mentioned below.

There's no problem to change to those keys, but do you
really mean two single-quotes for udatta?  Why not single
single-quote?  And, is those keys compatible with some other
input methods?

> Separate request (refined from one mentioned earlier):
> अ] Single '.' followed by a character not in [०-९] (The most important case
> being whitespaces) should be rendered as । . (Just typing one dot rather
> than two is much more convenient, as in English. We would retain .. to ।
> rule for the case where the user needs to insert a daNDa in a position
> before a non-whitespace character.)

Currently, for instance, when ".D" is typed, the preedit area
changes like this:
  key   preedit
  .     .
  D     ड़्
Should we change that to this?
  key   preedit
  .     ।
  D     ड़्
Doesn't it make users feel strange (i.e. । changes to ड़्)?

> b] ... should be mapped to … (ellipsis) <--- Low priority.

If we are going to support such generic symbols, isn't it
better to have a single escaping key, for instance "/", and
consistently use it as a prefix to input various symbols.
  "//"  -> "/"
  "/."  -> "•"
  "/.." -> "‥"
  "/..." -> "…"
  "/0"  -> "0"
     ...

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Kenichi Handa
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