Bug 15240

Summary:	New ua phonetic layout ('homophonic').
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Tomas M <TomasMiljenovic>
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	patch for homophonic ua layout patch for homophonic ua layout

Description Tomas M 2008-03-28 07:23:51 UTC

Created attachment 15537 [details] [review]
patch for homophonic ua layout

A 'homophonic' layout for Ukrainian ('ua'), different from the existing 'phonetic' variant.  Designed with commonly-used homophonic layouts for Windows and Mac systems in mind, and matches well with Ukrainian National Transliteration.

Non-X systems have different phonetic layouts for Ukrainian, due to them not having (or previously not having) an in-built phonetic layout.  The common ones are very similar; there are only a few differences between all of them and the existing 'phonetic' variant of the xbkd 'ua' layout, however these differences are significant:
-  Cyrillic_ve (в) is always mapped to <LatV>
-  Cyrillic_ghe (г) is always mapped to <LatH>
-  Ukrainian_ghe_with_upturn (ґ) is always mapped to <LatG>
-  Cyrillic_ha is always mapped to <LatX>
et cetera.  It is also common to leave <AB08> as a comma, and <AB08> as a full stop.

The assignment of most letters in the 'homophonic' layout was based on the above.  When mapping non-letter characters (such as punctuation marks, brackets etc) I tried to retain those most relevant for punctuation, internet/e-mail and Unix prompts.  I opted to map the less (<) and greater (>) symbols rather than U+226A (≪) and U+226B (≫) for speech.  Unfortunately, asciitilde (~) was left out.

This variant was named 'homophonic' because a variant with the name 'phonetic' already exists, and because such variants are often called 'homophonic' layouts on non-X systems.


As may be apparent, I have not previously made a submission here.  I apologise for any breach of protocol, or misinterpretation of the submission rules.  Please point out any corrections I should make.

Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2008-03-28 15:18:10 UTC

Well, your patch is not exactly valid. Could you please attach the result of "diff -u " command? I understand, you're new to all this stuff, so do not worry to much:) Also, I recommend reading http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Rules. Especially about base.xml.in

Comment 2 Tomas M 2008-03-28 17:37:03 UTC

Created attachment 15550 [details] [review]
patch for homophonic ua layout

Sorry about that.  Here are proper patches for symbols/ua and for rules/base.xml.in . (I had read the submission rules, but didni't quite follow them.)

Comment 3 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2008-03-30 11:16:21 UTC

Thanks, committed (though the patch for symbols/ua was broken;)

Comment 4 Tomas M 2008-03-30 22:46:12 UTC

Thanks; for committing, and for fixing my mistakes...

(In reply to comment #3)
> Thanks, committed (though the patch for symbols/ua was broken;)

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