Hi Sethu,
As always, thanks for testing! Also, please test the Tamil Renganathan
layout in STS mode and tell me how that goes. My comments are below.
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 14:01 +0530, கா. சேது | කා. සේතු | K. Sethu wrote:
> I have done some testing. I have the following versions with
> ibus-m17n.i686 from updates repo and m17n-db.noarch from
> updates-testing repo.
>
> [sethu@... ~]$ yum list ibus ibus-m17n m17n-lib m17n-db
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Adding en_US to language list
> Installed Packages
> ibus.i686 1.3.7-11.fc14 @fedora
> ibus-m17n.i686 1.3.1-6.fc14 @updates
> m17n-db.noarch 1.6.2-1.fc14 @updates-testing
> m17n-lib.i686 1.6.2-1.fc14 @updates-testing
> [sethu@... ~]$
>
>
> Regarding Bug 435880, situation is still the same as what I told you a
> month back (date:Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:14 AM +05:30) . Let me point
> out with following examples (with STS enabled for m17n wijesekera):
>
> 1) type in sequence fldg --> කොට
> After committing, backspace to remove ට and press key a (al-lakuna)
> Result in both gedit (ibus-m17n - wijesekera ) and m17n-edit
> (wijesekera) : Correctly composed කෝ [U+0D9A U+0DDD]
>
> 2) type in sequence flg --> කෙට
> After committing, backspace to remove ට and press key d (aela-pilla)
> Result in both gedit (ibus-m17n -wijesekera) and m17n-edit
> (wijesekera) : Correctly composed කො [U+0D9A U+0DDC]
> (i.e., Required NFC conformed to)
>
> 3) type in sequence flg --> කෙට
> After committing, backspace to remove ට and press key a (al-lakuna)
> Result in both gedit (ibus-m17n -wijesekera) and m17n-edit
> (wijesekera) : Correctly composed කේ [U+0D9A U+0DDA]
> (i.e., Required NFC conformed to)
>
> 4) type in sequence fg --> ටෙ
> After committing, backspace to remove ට
> Result in m17n-edit (wijesekera) : As expected correctly standalone ෙ
> (Vowel Sign Kombuva - U+0DD9) is result
> Result in gedit (ibus-m17n -wijesekera) : outputs ට - Wrong as this is
> not expected with STS !
Try the latest RPMs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639253
> 5) type in sequence ufg --> මටෙ
> After committing, backspace to remove ට
> Result in m17n-edit (wijesekera) : As expected correctly ම (U+0DB8
> U+200C U+0DD9)
> Result in gedit (ibus-m17n -wijesekera) : outputs මට - Wrong as this
> is not expected with STS !
Try the latest RPMs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639253
> 6) Input of syllable having ෛ (Kombu-deka - U+0DB) into m17n-edit
> reveals another bug in m17n-edit. A sequence, say ffl that should
> produce කෛ visually shows up as කෙෙ (second kombu appearing right of
> consonant) in m17n-edit window but saving the same content into a text
> file and viewing that file reveals correct composition කෛ ! So
> something wrong with m17n-edit's own rendering for this.
Thanks for picking that up. I've attached a patch to the SINH-OTF.flt
file in /usr/share/m17n/ . It should fix the problem.
cya,
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> I haven't checked yet correcting committed ටෛ to කෛ yet in gedit with
> ibus-m17n - I will do that when I get to my home PC later tonight.
>
> The bugs in 3) and 4) above indicates decomposing with ibus-m17n back
> to input stream fails to vowel reorder a syllable having left side
> single part vowel sign.
>
> Another point about m17n-edit - it does not have an edit feature of
> select, copy and then paste into another application. Wish those are
> included so that we need not waste time for saving the content into a
> file and then checking for code points.
>
> ~Sethu
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