* NEWS -- What's new in the m17n database.			-*- outline -*-
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005
  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  Registration Number H15PRO112
See the end for copying conditions.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.3.0

** Wildcard handling is added to mdb.dir.

For instance, the current mdb.dir file contains this single line:
  (input-method * "*.mim")
instead of lines for each input methods.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.2.0

** Naming convention for *.flt and *.mim is changed.

Script names : ISO 15924 (four letter codes)
Language names : ISO 639-1 (two letter codes)
See ChangeLog for details.

** Several new input methods are added.

dv-phonetic.mim (Thaana script)
hy-kbd.mim (Armenian script)
ko-romaja.mim (Korean Hangul script)
my-kbd.mim (Myanmar script)
si-samanala.mim (Sinhala script)
zh-pinyin.min (PinYin script)
bopo-kbd.mim (Bopomofo script)
syrc-phonetic.mim (Syriac script)
latn-pre.mim (Latin script)

** Several new FLTs are added.

SINH-OTF.flt (Sinhala script)
SYRC-OTF.flt (Syriac script)


* Changes in the m17n database 1.1.0

** Several new FLTs are added.

ARABIC-OTF.flt (Arabic script)
BEN-OTF.flt (Bengali script)
GUJ-OTF.flt (Gujarati script)
GUR-OTF.flt (Gurmukhi script)
KAN-OTF.flt (Kannada script)
MYANMAR-ZEDI.flt (Myanmar script)
ORI-OTF.flt (Oriya script)
TEL-OTF.flt (Telugu script)
THAANA-OTF.flt (Thaana script)
TML-OTF.flt (Tamil script)

** Several new input methods are added.

sr-kbd.mim (Serbian)
hr-kbd.mim (Croatian)
ka-kdb.mim (Georgian)
kk-arabic.mim (Kazakh in Arabic script)
kk-kdb.mim (Kazakh in Cyrillic script)

** New command m17n-db prints information about the installed m17n database.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.0

** Released.


* Copyright information

Copyright (C) 2004
  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  Registration Number H15PRO112

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