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
12 CHAR-GENERIC.flt (For Cham script)
15 * Changes in the m17n database 1.5.0
17 ** A new FLT is added.
19 COMBINING.flt (For combining diacritical marks)
22 * Changes in the m17n database 1.4.0
24 ** Several new input methods are added.
28 fr-azerty.mim (French)
30 ** New database for language names.
33 * Changes in the m17n database 1.3.4
35 ** Several new input methods are added.
37 grc-mizuochi.mim (Greek)
38 ja-trycode.mim (Japanese)
39 ru-phonetic.mim (Russian)
40 si-wijesekera-preedit.mim (Sinhala)
41 th-kesmanee-2.mim, th-pattachote.mim th-pattachote-2.mim (Thai)
42 th-tis820.mim th-tis820-2.mim (Thai)
44 zh-bopomofo.mim (Chinese bopomofo, renamed from bopo-kbd.mim)
46 ** Several new FLTs are added.
54 * Changes in the m17n database 1.3.0
56 ** Wildcard handling is added to mdb.dir.
58 For instance, the current mdb.dir file contains this single line:
59 (input-method * "*.mim")
60 instead of lines for each input methods.
62 ** Several new input methods are added.
64 bn-unijoy.mim (Bengali)
65 hi-typewriter.mim (Hindi)
67 si-wijesekera.mim (Sinhala)
69 vi-vni.mim (Vietnamese)
70 zh-cangjie.mim, zh-quick.mim (Chinese)
71 zh-py-b5.mim, zh-py-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-py.mim)
72 zh-tonepy-b5.mim, zh-tonepy-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-tone.mim)
74 ** Several new FLTs are added.
76 ARAB-OTF-NO-GPOS.flt (Arabic)
78 LAOO-GENERIC.flt (Lao)
79 MLYM-RACHANA.flt (Malayalam)
80 THAI-GENERIC.flt (Thai)
81 TIBT-OTF.flt (Tibetan)
84 * Changes in the m17n database 1.2.0
86 ** Naming convention for *.flt and *.mim is changed.
88 Script names : ISO 15924 (four letter codes)
89 Language names : ISO 639-1 (two letter codes)
90 See ChangeLog for details.
92 ** Several new input methods are added.
94 dv-phonetic.mim (Thaana script)
95 hy-kbd.mim (Armenian script)
96 ko-romaja.mim (Korean Hangul script)
97 my-kbd.mim (Myanmar script)
98 si-samanala.mim (Sinhala script)
99 zh-pinyin.min (PinYin script)
100 bopo-kbd.mim (Bopomofo script)
101 syrc-phonetic.mim (Syriac script)
102 latn-pre.mim (Latin script)
104 ** Several new FLTs are added.
106 SINH-OTF.flt (Sinhala script)
107 SYRC-OTF.flt (Syriac script)
109 ** Several new char-tables are added.
111 BLOCK.tab (Unicode Blocks)
112 CASE-MAPPING.tab CASED.tab SOFT-DOTTED.tab (for case conversion)
113 LINEBREAK.tab (for linebreaking)
114 LANGUAGE.tbl (ISO639-1, ISO639-2 language codes)
115 SCRIPT-LANGUAGE.tbl (script vs languages)
117 ** A new fontset generic.fst is added.
120 * Changes in the m17n database 1.1.0
122 ** Several new FLTs are added.
124 ARABIC-OTF.flt (Arabic script)
125 BEN-OTF.flt (Bengali script)
126 GUJ-OTF.flt (Gujarati script)
127 GUR-OTF.flt (Gurmukhi script)
128 KAN-OTF.flt (Kannada script)
129 MYANMAR-ZEDI.flt (Myanmar script)
130 ORI-OTF.flt (Oriya script)
131 TEL-OTF.flt (Telugu script)
132 THAANA-OTF.flt (Thaana script)
133 TML-OTF.flt (Tamil script)
135 ** Several new input methods are added.
138 hr-kbd.mim (Croatian)
139 ka-kdb.mim (Georgian)
140 kk-arabic.mim (Kazakh in Arabic script)
141 kk-kdb.mim (Kazakh in Cyrillic script)
143 ** New command m17n-db prints information about the installed m17n database.
146 * Changes in the m17n database 1.0
151 * Copyright information
153 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
154 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
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157 This file is part of the m17n database; a sub-part of the m17n
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