1 * NEWS -- What's new in the m17n database. -*- outline -*-
2 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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 1.4.0
10 ** Several new input methods are added.
14 fr-azerty.mim (French)
16 ** New database for language names.
19 * Changes in the m17n database 1.3.4
21 ** Several new input methods are added.
23 grc-mizuochi.mim (Greek)
24 ja-trycode.mim (Japanese)
25 ru-phonetic.mim (Russian)
26 si-wijesekera-preedit.mim (Sinhala)
27 th-kesmanee-2.mim, th-pattachote.mim th-pattachote-2.mim (Thai)
28 th-tis820.mim th-tis820-2.mim (Thai)
30 zh-bopomofo.mim (Chinese bopomofo, renamed from bopo-kbd.mim)
32 ** Several new FLTs are added.
40 * Changes in the m17n database 1.3.0
42 ** Wildcard handling is added to mdb.dir.
44 For instance, the current mdb.dir file contains this single line:
45 (input-method * "*.mim")
46 instead of lines for each input methods.
48 ** Several new input methods are added.
50 bn-unijoy.mim (Bengali)
51 hi-typewriter.mim (Hindi)
53 si-wijesekera.mim (Sinhala)
55 vi-vni.mim (Vietnamese)
56 zh-cangjie.mim, zh-quick.mim (Chinese)
57 zh-py-b5.mim, zh-py-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-py.mim)
58 zh-tonepy-b5.mim, zh-tonepy-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-tone.mim)
60 ** Several new FLTs are added.
62 ARAB-OTF-NO-GPOS.flt (Arabic)
64 LAOO-GENERIC.flt (Lao)
65 MLYM-RACHANA.flt (Malayalam)
66 THAI-GENERIC.flt (Thai)
67 TIBT-OTF.flt (Tibetan)
70 * Changes in the m17n database 1.2.0
72 ** Naming convention for *.flt and *.mim is changed.
74 Script names : ISO 15924 (four letter codes)
75 Language names : ISO 639-1 (two letter codes)
76 See ChangeLog for details.
78 ** Several new input methods are added.
80 dv-phonetic.mim (Thaana script)
81 hy-kbd.mim (Armenian script)
82 ko-romaja.mim (Korean Hangul script)
83 my-kbd.mim (Myanmar script)
84 si-samanala.mim (Sinhala script)
85 zh-pinyin.min (PinYin script)
86 bopo-kbd.mim (Bopomofo script)
87 syrc-phonetic.mim (Syriac script)
88 latn-pre.mim (Latin script)
90 ** Several new FLTs are added.
92 SINH-OTF.flt (Sinhala script)
93 SYRC-OTF.flt (Syriac script)
95 ** Several new char-tables are added.
97 BLOCK.tab (Unicode Blocks)
98 CASE-MAPPING.tab CASED.tab SOFT-DOTTED.tab (for case conversion)
99 LINEBREAK.tab (for linebreaking)
100 LANGUAGE.tbl (ISO639-1, ISO639-2 language codes)
101 SCRIPT-LANGUAGE.tbl (script vs languages)
103 ** A new fontset generic.fst is added.
106 * Changes in the m17n database 1.1.0
108 ** Several new FLTs are added.
110 ARABIC-OTF.flt (Arabic script)
111 BEN-OTF.flt (Bengali script)
112 GUJ-OTF.flt (Gujarati script)
113 GUR-OTF.flt (Gurmukhi script)
114 KAN-OTF.flt (Kannada script)
115 MYANMAR-ZEDI.flt (Myanmar script)
116 ORI-OTF.flt (Oriya script)
117 TEL-OTF.flt (Telugu script)
118 THAANA-OTF.flt (Thaana script)
119 TML-OTF.flt (Tamil script)
121 ** Several new input methods are added.
124 hr-kbd.mim (Croatian)
125 ka-kdb.mim (Georgian)
126 kk-arabic.mim (Kazakh in Arabic script)
127 kk-kdb.mim (Kazakh in Cyrillic script)
129 ** New command m17n-db prints information about the installed m17n database.
132 * Changes in the m17n database 1.0
137 * Copyright information
139 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
140 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
141 Registration Number H15PRO112
143 This file is part of the m17n database; a sub-part of the m17n
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