[m17n-lib:00406] Re: [Fwd: Errors in ta-tamil99.mim of m17n-contrib]

[Sethu <skhome@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/6/06, àààà ààà <majain@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:15 +0900, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:
> > àààà ààà writes:
> >
> > > The corrected file is attached. :)
> >
> > I committed the file to cvs.  Thank you very much.
>
> Thanks everyone for bringing this up :)

Dear all

First my belated thanks to all concerned. Have got down from cvs and
tested, I  see that the keystrokes are ok and those bugs I brought up
are removed.

The documentation in Tamil in the description section of the mim file
is good idea.

There is a typo error in that section which I had told  ifelix at
redhat dot com (when I met him on google talk 2 days back) that I
would report here. Here is the mistake

The e.g. statements for rule 5 appears as:

> >
à + à + à -> àààà
à + à + à + à -> ààààààà
<<

You have to correct the second line of the above to read as:
à + à + à + à -> àààààà

Since this typo error does not impair any keyboard functionality there
is no urgency and I guess that it can wait for next cvs update

I had found the above same error (as well as 3 other typos) in the
site : http://www.tamilvu.org/Tamilnet99/annex2.htm -

And on my pointing out those typos (my screen-shot of that site then,
with my markings of errors: http://i13.tinypic.com/2q2mwlh.jpg)
TamilVU site's web master had responded back affirming correcting the
typos. I guess the source of the typo error in your mim file must have
been the said  annex2 maintained by TamilVU.

The tamil99 provided with m17n is compliant to first 8 of the 12 rules
in http://www.tamilvu.org/Tamilnet99/annex2.htm and we can also
consider rule #12 as complied with as that rule is only to give
freedom of choice for certain keys. So to make the m17n-ta-tamil99
fully compliant to tamil99 standard, further keystrokes for rules 9,10
and 11 are left to be included. Am I right?

~Sethu