[Uim] New version of romaja.scm

[TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:00:47 +0200
David Oftedal <david at start.no> wrote:

> Hello again!
> 
> I've generated yet another version of romaja.scm... This version 
> implements a few extra romanizations as per your advice, however far 
> from all of them: As of now, it implements the extra romanizations
> for "yi" and "weo", which are now also listed as "ui" and "wo", some
> of the double vowels ("kk", "tt" and "pp"), and the fix for l/r.
> 
> What I found was that as I started adding a lot of extra
> romanizations for the vowels, the table-based input method started
> getting confused about which syllable I was typing in, and started
> eating the syllables in the pre-edit area. For instance, "hwoarang"
> became "와랑" instead of "훠아랑" or whatever it's supposed to be.
> This already happens if you type  a syllable ending in e immediately
> followed by an o or an u, actually, but let's hope noone notices! :)
> In the end, this means that if we want a lot of extra romanizations,
> we'll have to either change the way UIM interprets these tables, or
> develop a more advanced romanized Korean input method in some sort of
> programming or scripting language.
> 
> I might have added some extra romanizations for the consonants, like
> q for k and z for j, but I'm not sure if there's any point to it when
> only the official romanizations are available for the vowels. Plus, I 
> accidentally deleted the most current versions of my files and really 
> need a break. It is possible to add extra romanizations like q for k, 
> though, in the same way that I did for r and l. If a lot of people
> start requesting it, I'll get right on it. ^_^
> 
> So, in the end, not quite what we wanted, but a step closer:
> 
> http://home.no.net/david/romaja.scm - Get it while it's hot.

Though I haven't read all of them yet, recent discussion about Hangul
seems very interesting.

BTW, should I update uim's romaja.scm with this latest version? Or
latest one is still experimental?


Regards,

-- 
TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki
tkng at xem.jp