GNU bug report logs - #10893
New input mode: bulgarian-new-phonetic

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From: Йордан Миладинов <jordanmiladinov <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: New input mode: bulgarian-new-phonetic
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:50:59 +0200

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Hello, everyone!

Here, in Bulgaria, a lot of people use the new bulgarian phonetic keyboard
layout. It was issued as a national standard (BDS) in 2006 but, oddly, it's
not yet supported by Emacs.
I'm using it too and it's always hard and uncomfy to use Emacs for writing
in Bulgarian, since one have to switch the layout to English for navigating
in the text and to Bulgarian to actually type letters.
That's why I made a patch to add the new phonetic layout as an input
method. Here the layout is commonly called 'New Bulgarian Phonetic' and
hence the name 'bulgarian-new-phonetic'.

I was advised to send the patch here on this email list. Also I already
applied for the FSF form for past and future changes.

I would be more than happy if you apply the patch. :)

Regards!
Yordan

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Message #8 received at 10893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Огнян Кулев <ogi <at> tower.3.bg>
To: 10893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Needed
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:01:54 +0200

Hi,

I'm author of 2 Bulgarian keyboards already in Emacs. I'm glad that 
finally we'll have Vista's phonetic keyboard.

I'm yet to review the patch but I object to call it "official Bulgarian 
phonetic keyboard layout which was issued as BDS in 2006...BDS 
5237:2006". This was never a standard. It was a proposal for standard 
that (rightfully) got rejected: http://www.bds-bg.org/news/?news_id=56 . 
The authors of this layout lied to everyone that it's a standard while 
it was not. They lied to Microsoft and Microsoft included it in Vista.

The description of the layout looks too verbose and vertically long. 
Please consider how this description looks after Describe Input Method 
in a 80x25 terminal window.

Regards,
Ognyan Kulev

Message #13 received at 10893-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 10893-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10893: Needed
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:27:26 -0400

Version: 24.0.95

Thanks for this.
I don't know anything about Bulgarian, or input methods, but it seems to
me that this can't do any harm. Based on the comments I installed it as
"bulgarian-alt-phonetic" and shortened the description, I hope this was
ok; and that someone will fix it if not...

It's good that you started the copyright assignment process.
I'm assuming however that most of the content here is a factual
description of the layout and that it was therefore ok to install this
as a "tiny change" without an assignment, at least for now.

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