Bug 29429

Summary:	Include Church Slavonic keyboard layout
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Aleksandr Andreev <sasha>
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Church Slavonic layout (for inclusion in the symbols/ru file) Fixed typo in cu layout file Edited base.extras.xml file Fixes a problem with AltGr 5

Description Aleksandr Andreev 2010-08-06 18:23:22 UTC

Created attachment 37654 [details]
Church Slavonic layout (for inclusion in the symbols/ru file)

Would it be possible to include a keyboard layout for Church Slavonic? It would be included in the Russia file. 

This would be useful for members of the Russian Orthodox Church as well as scholars of Russian and Eastern European literature.

I have created a layout (see attached). There is also a Unicode-compliant Church Slavonic font here: http://www.ponomar.net/slvsupport.html

Cordially,

Aleksandr Andreev

Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-08-07 04:16:25 UTC

A couple of questions:

1. Is this layout used by yourself only - or there are at least several users? Just your estimations...

2. Would you be able to provide a patch for base.xml with meta-info? Actually, since that layout is quite exotic, would you mind that it would be included into "extras" (see base.extras.xml.in)

Thanks

Comment 2 Aleksandr Andreev 2010-08-08 13:57:15 UTC

Created attachment 37706 [details]
Fixed typo in cu layout file

Comment 3 Aleksandr Andreev 2010-08-08 13:58:02 UTC

Created attachment 37707 [details]
Edited base.extras.xml file

Comment 4 Aleksandr Andreev 2010-08-08 14:03:22 UTC

Hi Sergey,

To answer your questions.

This is a new keyboard layout. It became possible with the inclusion of all CS glyphs in Unicode. We created the Hirmos Ponomar font, which, I believe, is the first Unicode compatible CS font and we need a keyboard layout that would allow us to naturally enter CS in Unicode. 

Prior to this, people have used ways of marking up CS texts using Russian and Latin, such as HIP (http://www.orthlib.ru/hip/).

Thus, in short, the usage of this layout is currently limited to people involved with the Ponomar liturgics project. I hope, however, that as more people switch to Unicode from HIP, it will become more popular.

Therefore, I think its inclusion in extras in appropriate.

Is the syntax of the modified base.extras.xml file I sent you correct?

The ISO-639-2 codes for Church Slavonic are cu or chu.

Also, I resent the layout. There was a typo in the original file I had submitted.

Aleks

Comment 5 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-08-10 12:58:37 UTC

Great. Committed. Please check.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/?id=306a71cf6097b20210c721ee474a50cd8c818b29

Comment 6 Aleksandr Andreev 2010-08-11 08:26:34 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Great. Committed. Please check.
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/?id=306a71cf6097b20210c721ee474a50cd8c818b29

This looks good.

Comment 7 Aleksandr Andreev 2010-10-28 11:51:16 UTC

Hi Sergey,

I was alerted that we have a slight problem with the Church Slavonic keyboard.  We would like to change the Unicode glyph located at AltGr + 5. While the iotified A and the Cyrillic YA are the same thing, Unicode prefers that iotified A is used.

Would it be possible to change this?  See the attached file.

Aleks

Comment 8 Aleksandr Andreev 2010-10-28 11:52:27 UTC

Created attachment 39870 [details]
Fixes a problem with AltGr 5

Comment 9 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-11-12 17:13:09 UTC

Ok, done. Please send the proper patches next time

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