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26.1.50; the ethiopic input method does not allow the insertion of a very frequent character

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From: yilkal argaw <yilkalargawworkneh <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33024 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33024: 26.1.50; the ethiopic input method does not allow the insertion of a very frequent character
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:56:11 +0300

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Thanks, I'll take a look.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 11:14 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: yilkal argaw <yilkalargawworkneh <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:13:21 +0300
> >
> > I tried to use emacs for typing in Amharic the largest language that
> currently
> > uses the Geez-script characters and some Geez to (the latin of
> > Ethiopia). The ethipic input method does not allow for the insertion of
> > አ character when pressing a . It rather inserts ኣ. The two letters
> > sound the same but they are used differently. አ is very frequent in
> > Amharic and Geez (I think it is one of the top 10 frequent
> > characters). ኣ on the other hand is less frequent and not often use.
> > Some language like Tigrigna and Tigre use the ኣ character more often
> > than Amharic but the frequency of አ in those languages is very high
> > too.
>
> I think you can have what you want if you do this:
>
>  (setq ethio-primary-language 'amharic)
>  (ethio-select-a-translation)
>
> Without this, the default primary language is tigrigna.
>
> I don't know anything about Ethiopic languages, so I don't know how
> reasonable is the default we use.  (I also think the defvar's at the
> beginning of ethio-util.el should be defcustoms.)
>
> > So this behavoiour should be altered to allow insertion of both አ
> > and ኣ through variations in of the A key as:
> > a:(1/1) 1.አ
> > a2:(1/1) 1.ኣ
> > a3:(1/1) 1.ዓ
> > ae:(1/1) 1.ዐ
> > aaa:(1/1) 1.ዓ
> > aa:(1/1) 1.ዐ
> > aaaa(1/1) 1. ዓ
>
> Maybe we could have an alternative input method that worked like
> above, since this is an incompatible change.
>
> Thanks.
>

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