1 * NEWS -- What's new in the m17n database. -*- outline -*-
2 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
3 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
4 Registration Number H15PRO112
5 See the end for copying conditions.
8 * Changes in the m17n database 1.5.1
10 ** A new FLT is added.
12 CHAM-GENERIC.flt (For Cham script)
14 ** A new input method is added.
16 vi-tcvn.mim (Vietnamese)
20 * Changes in the m17n database 1.5.0
22 ** A new FLT is added.
24 COMBINING.flt (For combining diacritical marks)
27 * Changes in the m17n database 1.4.0
29 ** Several new input methods are added.
33 fr-azerty.mim (French)
35 ** New database for language names.
38 * Changes in the m17n database 1.3.4
40 ** Several new input methods are added.
42 grc-mizuochi.mim (Greek)
43 ja-trycode.mim (Japanese)
44 ru-phonetic.mim (Russian)
45 si-wijesekera-preedit.mim (Sinhala)
46 th-kesmanee-2.mim, th-pattachote.mim th-pattachote-2.mim (Thai)
47 th-tis820.mim th-tis820-2.mim (Thai)
49 zh-bopomofo.mim (Chinese bopomofo, renamed from bopo-kbd.mim)
51 ** Several new FLTs are added.
59 * Changes in the m17n database 1.3.0
61 ** Wildcard handling is added to mdb.dir.
63 For instance, the current mdb.dir file contains this single line:
64 (input-method * "*.mim")
65 instead of lines for each input methods.
67 ** Several new input methods are added.
69 bn-unijoy.mim (Bengali)
70 hi-typewriter.mim (Hindi)
72 si-wijesekera.mim (Sinhala)
74 vi-vni.mim (Vietnamese)
75 zh-cangjie.mim, zh-quick.mim (Chinese)
76 zh-py-b5.mim, zh-py-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-py.mim)
77 zh-tonepy-b5.mim, zh-tonepy-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-tone.mim)
79 ** Several new FLTs are added.
81 ARAB-OTF-NO-GPOS.flt (Arabic)
83 LAOO-GENERIC.flt (Lao)
84 MLYM-RACHANA.flt (Malayalam)
85 THAI-GENERIC.flt (Thai)
86 TIBT-OTF.flt (Tibetan)
89 * Changes in the m17n database 1.2.0
91 ** Naming convention for *.flt and *.mim is changed.
93 Script names : ISO 15924 (four letter codes)
94 Language names : ISO 639-1 (two letter codes)
95 See ChangeLog for details.
97 ** Several new input methods are added.
99 dv-phonetic.mim (Thaana script)
100 hy-kbd.mim (Armenian script)
101 ko-romaja.mim (Korean Hangul script)
102 my-kbd.mim (Myanmar script)
103 si-samanala.mim (Sinhala script)
104 zh-pinyin.min (PinYin script)
105 bopo-kbd.mim (Bopomofo script)
106 syrc-phonetic.mim (Syriac script)
107 latn-pre.mim (Latin script)
109 ** Several new FLTs are added.
111 SINH-OTF.flt (Sinhala script)
112 SYRC-OTF.flt (Syriac script)
114 ** Several new char-tables are added.
116 BLOCK.tab (Unicode Blocks)
117 CASE-MAPPING.tab CASED.tab SOFT-DOTTED.tab (for case conversion)
118 LINEBREAK.tab (for linebreaking)
119 LANGUAGE.tbl (ISO639-1, ISO639-2 language codes)
120 SCRIPT-LANGUAGE.tbl (script vs languages)
122 ** A new fontset generic.fst is added.
125 * Changes in the m17n database 1.1.0
127 ** Several new FLTs are added.
129 ARABIC-OTF.flt (Arabic script)
130 BEN-OTF.flt (Bengali script)
131 GUJ-OTF.flt (Gujarati script)
132 GUR-OTF.flt (Gurmukhi script)
133 KAN-OTF.flt (Kannada script)
134 MYANMAR-ZEDI.flt (Myanmar script)
135 ORI-OTF.flt (Oriya script)
136 TEL-OTF.flt (Telugu script)
137 THAANA-OTF.flt (Thaana script)
138 TML-OTF.flt (Tamil script)
140 ** Several new input methods are added.
143 hr-kbd.mim (Croatian)
144 ka-kdb.mim (Georgian)
145 kk-arabic.mim (Kazakh in Arabic script)
146 kk-kdb.mim (Kazakh in Cyrillic script)
148 ** New command m17n-db prints information about the installed m17n database.
151 * Changes in the m17n database 1.0
156 * Copyright information
158 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
159 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
160 Registration Number H15PRO112
162 This file is part of the m17n database; a sub-part of the m17n
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