Bug 177295

Summary: need Marathi keymap
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component: m17n-dbAssignee: Mayank Jain <majain>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact:
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Fixed In Version: m17n-db-marathi-1.3.3-3 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Description Jens Petersen 2006-01-09 08:27:02 UTC
Description of problem:
m17n-db needs a keymap for the Indic language Marthi (mr_IN).

Additional info:
See for example:
http://www.aksharamala.com/help/chm/Input%20Schemes/KBD/Devanagari/marathi.html
and these typewriter maps:
http://indlinux.sourceforge.net/images/keymap/typ/martyp1.jpg
http://indlinux.sourceforge.net/images/keymap/typ/martyp1sh.jpg

Comment 1 Rahul Bhalerao 2006-03-24 06:34:30 UTC
Marathi(mr_IN) uses same script(Devanagari) as that of Hindi(hi_IN).
There are few characters written slightly different in 
both languages. But that was many years back. Now both the 
languages share  same characters and shapes, or atleast they 
are understood by both. 
Only u+096E (i.e. numeral 8) is still having different shape in hi_IN. 
Also, u+0932 is sometimes prefered a slightly different shape in mr_IN. But 
for so many years I have not seen this to be an issue with Marathi(mr_IN)
users. 
Since there is no separate Unicode chart for mr_IN and hi_IN, and no provision
for such few exceptions, the hi_IN key layout works perfectly with mr_IN.
Infact its more suitable for mr_IN. 


Comment 2 Mayank Jain 2006-03-24 06:39:08 UTC
Rahul,

If we create a separate marathi keymap (though exactly similar to hindi), would
it be fine or just using the hi_IN keymap be good?

I'm asking this because if in future any changes be needed in marathi keymap
(mr-inscript.mim), they can be happily be incorporated in the marathi keymap,
without touching the hindi keymap (hi-inscript.mim).

What do you suggest?

Comment 3 Rahul Bhalerao 2006-03-24 06:47:32 UTC
Sure, there's nothing wrong with having separate keymap for mr_IN.
But keep it exaclty same as hi_IN and in accordance with unicode.
We may expect extensions to unicode (Devanagari) for suiting most 
languages like Sindhi, Sanskrit, Marathi and Hindi. So it would be
better to keep a separate keymap.

Comment 4 Mayank Jain 2006-03-28 05:48:09 UTC
Created attachment 126881 [details]
Marathi keymap

Attached the keymap for marathi, which is based on hindi keymap.

Comment 5 Mayank Jain 2006-04-07 08:23:19 UTC
Rahul,
Can you please test the new keymap with FC5?
If it works fine, we can proceed to close the bug.

Thanks,
Mayank

Comment 7 Rahul Bhalerao 2006-05-16 12:23:13 UTC
Mayank,

The new keymap for Marathi works perfect in scim.
It supports all the characters for devanagari script
in unicode, except punctuation mark U0965, which 
is not supported even in hindi keymap.

Thanks,
Rahul.

Comment 8 Mayank Jain 2006-05-29 10:07:16 UTC
Added to rawhide.