Re: Problem in hi-itrans or not?

[Mike FABIAN]

"विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)" <vishvas.vasuki@gmail.com> さんはかきました:

> Those are rarely used characters - while we have (phonetic intuitionwise)
> superior alternatives (ea, oa), there's no harm in following the "standard"
> ITRANS maps. PS -
> https://github.com/indic-transliteration/m17n-db-indic/commit/592d832d06f07b2c21d46dcb41b76a9744ce260c
> (fixed the oa map along the way - tested only with sa-vedic-itrans, which I
> use all the time.)

Thank you very much for the fixes, I have pushed your improvements for
sa-vedic-itrans.mim, sa-itrans.mim, and hi-itrans.mim to the master
branch.

> On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 20:23, Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Somebody reported an issue against ibus-m17n while trying to use hi-itrans:
>>
>> https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n/issues/85
>>
>> What he observes has nothing to do with ibus-m17n though, it is the
>> normal behaviour of hi-itrans. He writes:
>>
>> > According to the ITRANS unicode table
>> > (https://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/itrans6/itrans-tables-unicode.pdf)
>> > and documentation (https://www.aczoom.com/itrans/html/dvnc/node3.html),
>> > the key combination .c is supposed to modify the character preceding it
>> > it (e.g. ka.c -> कॅ , aa.c -> ऑ ), however when I try this, I get कऍ and
>> > आऍ respectively. Inputting .c thus returns ऍ , rather than modifying the
>> > previous character.
>> >
>> > To Reproduce
>> > Steps to reproduce the behavior:
>> >
>> >     Click on ibus tray icon.
>> >     Click on 'Hindi - hi-itrans (m17n)'.
>> >     Type 'aa.c' on US-style keyboard.
>> >     See it return 'आऍ'.
>> >
>> > Expected behavior
>> > I expected input 'aa.c' to return 'ऑ'.
>>
>> With hi-itrans (and also with mr-itrans and mr-gamabhana) one can do this:
>>
>> To get कॅ you can type k.c instead of ka.c.
>> To get ऑ you can type o.c instead of aa.c.
>>
>> But the link he gave
>> (https://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/itrans6/itrans-tables-unicode.pdf)
>> mentions "ka.c कॅ".
>>
>> So I wonder whether there is a problem in hi-itrans or not. Is the table
>> at the link
>> https://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/itrans6/itrans-tables-unicode.pdf
>> relevant? Is it up-to-date?
>>
>> Or maybe hi-itrans is fine as it is now ...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>
>> 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。
>>
>>

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Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>
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