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 1.5.2
10 ** A new input method is added.
12 sa-harvard-kyoto.mim (Sanscrit)
15 * Changes in the m17n database 1.5.1
17 ** A new FLT is added.
19 CHAM-GENERIC.flt (For Cham script)
21 ** Several new input methods are added.
23 vi-tcvn.mim (Vietnamese)
25 sa-harvard-kyoto.mim (Sanscrit)
28 * Changes in the m17n database 1.5.0
30 ** A new FLT is added.
32 COMBINING.flt (For combining diacritical marks)
35 * Changes in the m17n database 1.4.0
37 ** Several new input methods are added.
41 fr-azerty.mim (French)
43 ** New database for language names.
46 * Changes in the m17n database 1.3.4
48 ** Several new input methods are added.
50 grc-mizuochi.mim (Greek)
51 ja-trycode.mim (Japanese)
52 ru-phonetic.mim (Russian)
53 si-wijesekera-preedit.mim (Sinhala)
54 th-kesmanee-2.mim, th-pattachote.mim th-pattachote-2.mim (Thai)
55 th-tis820.mim th-tis820-2.mim (Thai)
57 zh-bopomofo.mim (Chinese bopomofo, renamed from bopo-kbd.mim)
59 ** Several new FLTs are added.
67 * Changes in the m17n database 1.3.0
69 ** Wildcard handling is added to mdb.dir.
71 For instance, the current mdb.dir file contains this single line:
72 (input-method * "*.mim")
73 instead of lines for each input methods.
75 ** Several new input methods are added.
77 bn-unijoy.mim (Bengali)
78 hi-typewriter.mim (Hindi)
80 si-wijesekera.mim (Sinhala)
82 vi-vni.mim (Vietnamese)
83 zh-cangjie.mim, zh-quick.mim (Chinese)
84 zh-py-b5.mim, zh-py-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-py.mim)
85 zh-tonepy-b5.mim, zh-tonepy-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-tone.mim)
87 ** Several new FLTs are added.
89 ARAB-OTF-NO-GPOS.flt (Arabic)
91 LAOO-GENERIC.flt (Lao)
92 MLYM-RACHANA.flt (Malayalam)
93 THAI-GENERIC.flt (Thai)
94 TIBT-OTF.flt (Tibetan)
97 * Changes in the m17n database 1.2.0
99 ** Naming convention for *.flt and *.mim is changed.
101 Script names : ISO 15924 (four letter codes)
102 Language names : ISO 639-1 (two letter codes)
103 See ChangeLog for details.
105 ** Several new input methods are added.
107 dv-phonetic.mim (Thaana script)
108 hy-kbd.mim (Armenian script)
109 ko-romaja.mim (Korean Hangul script)
110 my-kbd.mim (Myanmar script)
111 si-samanala.mim (Sinhala script)
112 zh-pinyin.min (PinYin script)
113 bopo-kbd.mim (Bopomofo script)
114 syrc-phonetic.mim (Syriac script)
115 latn-pre.mim (Latin script)
117 ** Several new FLTs are added.
119 SINH-OTF.flt (Sinhala script)
120 SYRC-OTF.flt (Syriac script)
122 ** Several new char-tables are added.
124 BLOCK.tab (Unicode Blocks)
125 CASE-MAPPING.tab CASED.tab SOFT-DOTTED.tab (for case conversion)
126 LINEBREAK.tab (for linebreaking)
127 LANGUAGE.tbl (ISO639-1, ISO639-2 language codes)
128 SCRIPT-LANGUAGE.tbl (script vs languages)
130 ** A new fontset generic.fst is added.
133 * Changes in the m17n database 1.1.0
135 ** Several new FLTs are added.
137 ARABIC-OTF.flt (Arabic script)
138 BEN-OTF.flt (Bengali script)
139 GUJ-OTF.flt (Gujarati script)
140 GUR-OTF.flt (Gurmukhi script)
141 KAN-OTF.flt (Kannada script)
142 MYANMAR-ZEDI.flt (Myanmar script)
143 ORI-OTF.flt (Oriya script)
144 TEL-OTF.flt (Telugu script)
145 THAANA-OTF.flt (Thaana script)
146 TML-OTF.flt (Tamil script)
148 ** Several new input methods are added.
151 hr-kbd.mim (Croatian)
152 ka-kdb.mim (Georgian)
153 kk-arabic.mim (Kazakh in Arabic script)
154 kk-kdb.mim (Kazakh in Cyrillic script)
156 ** New command m17n-db prints information about the installed m17n database.
159 * Changes in the m17n database 1.0
164 * Copyright information
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