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 * NEWS -- What's new in the m17n database.                     -*- outline -*-
 * NEWS -- What's new in the m17n database.                     -*- outline -*-

-Copyright (C) 2004
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
   Registration Number H15PRO112
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 \f
   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
   Registration Number H15PRO112
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 \f

-* Changes in the m17n database 1.1
+* Changes in the m17n database 1.5.1
+
+A New FLT is added.
+
+CHAR-GENERIC.flt (For Cham script)
+
+\f
+* Changes in the m17n database 1.5.0
+
+** A new FLT is added.
+
+COMBINING.flt (For combining diacritical marks)
+
+\f
+* Changes in the m17n database 1.4.0
+
+** Several new input methods are added.
+
+da-post.mim (Danish)
+bo-ewts.mim (Tibetan)
+fr-azerty.mim (French)
+
+** New database for language names.
+
+\f
+* Changes in the m17n database 1.3.4
+
+** Several new input methods are added.
+
+grc-mizuochi.mim (Greek)
+ja-trycode.mim (Japanese)
+ru-phonetic.mim (Russian)
+si-wijesekera-preedit.mim (Sinhala)
+th-kesmanee-2.mim, th-pattachote.mim th-pattachote-2.mim (Thai)
+th-tis820.mim th-tis820-2.mim (Thai)
+ug-kbd.mim (Uyghur)
+zh-bopomofo.mim (Chinese bopomofo, renamed from bopo-kbd.mim)
+
+** Several new FLTs are added.
+
+LAOO-OTF.flt (Lao)
+THAI-OTF.flt (Thai)
+
+** Gettextized.
+
+\f
+* 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.
+
+** Several new input methods are added.
+
+bn-unijoy.mim (Bengali)
+hi-typewriter.mim (Hindi)
+lo-kbd.mim (Lao)
+si-wijesekera.mim (Sinhala)
+sv-post.mim (Swedish)
+vi-vni.mim (Vietnamese)
+zh-cangjie.mim, zh-quick.mim (Chinese)
+zh-py-b5.mim, zh-py-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-py.mim)
+zh-tonepy-b5.mim, zh-tonepy-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-tone.mim)
+
+** Several new FLTs are added.
+
+ARAB-OTF-NO-GPOS.flt (Arabic)
+KHMR-OTF.flt (Khmer)
+LAOO-GENERIC.flt (Lao)
+MLYM-RACHANA.flt (Malayalam)
+THAI-GENERIC.flt (Thai)
+TIBT-OTF.flt (Tibetan)
+
+\f
+* 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)
+
+** Several new char-tables are added.
+
+BLOCK.tab (Unicode Blocks)
+CASE-MAPPING.tab CASED.tab SOFT-DOTTED.tab (for case conversion)
+LINEBREAK.tab (for linebreaking)
+LANGUAGE.tbl (ISO639-1, ISO639-2 language codes)
+SCRIPT-LANGUAGE.tbl (script vs languages)
+
+** A new fontset generic.fst is added.
+
+\f
+* Changes in the m17n database 1.1.0

 
 ** Several new FLTs are added.
 
 
 ** Several new FLTs are added.
 

+ARABIC-OTF.flt (Arabic script)

 BEN-OTF.flt (Bengali script)
 BEN-OTF.flt (Bengali script)

+GUJ-OTF.flt (Gujarati script)

 GUR-OTF.flt (Gurmukhi 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)
 
 ** 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)
 
 kk-arabic.mim (Kazakh in Arabic script)
 kk-kdb.mim (Kazakh in Cyrillic script)
 

@@ -29,7 +150,7 @@ kk-kdb.mim (Kazakh in Cyrillic script)
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 * Copyright information
 
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 * Copyright information
 

-Copyright (C) 2004
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

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

@@ -48,5 +169,5 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License along with the m17n library; if not, write to the Free
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License along with the m17n library; if not, write to the Free

-Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
-02111-1307, USA.
+Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.