F35 Change: Enhanced Inscript as default Indic IM (Self-Contained Change)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Enhanced_Inscript_as_default_Indic_IM
== Summary ==
The recommended default input method for Indic languages will be
changed from Inscript to Enhanced Inscript keymaps.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Pnemade| Parag Nemade]]
* Email: <pnemade(a)fedoraproject.org>
== Detailed Description ==
We have enhanced Inscript keyboard layouts available in Fedora. But
they were implemented some time back as draft implementation. We now
want to update them to follow the final released standard keymappings.
It is available as
[https://standardsbis.bsbedge.com/BIS_searchstandard.aspx?Standard_Number=...
IS 16350:2016] standard.
{| border="1"
|-
| '''Language''' || ''' Locale code '''
||'''Existing Input
method''' ||'''New Input method'''
|-
| Assamese || as_IN || as-phonetic.mim || as-inscript2.mim
|-
| Bengali || bn_IN || bn-inscript.mim || bn-inscript2.mim
|-
| Bodo || brx_IN || brx-inscript2-deva.mim || brx-inscript2-deva.mim
|-
| Dogri || doi_IN || doi-inscript2-deva.mim || doi-inscript2-deva.mim
|-
| Gujarati || gu_IN || gu-inscript.mim || gu-inscript2.mim
|-
| Hindi || hi_IN || hi-inscript.mim || hi-inscript2.mim
|-
| Kannada || kn_IN || kn-kgp.mim || kn-inscript2.mim
|-
| Kashmiri || ks_IN@devanagari || ks-inscript.mim || ks-inscript2-deva.mim
|-
| Konkani || kok_IN || kok-inscript2-deva.mim || kok-inscript2-deva.mim
|-
| Maithili || mai_IN || mai-inscript.mim || mai-inscript2.mim
|-
| Malayalam || ml_IN || ml-inscript.mim || ml-inscript2.mim
|-
| Manipuri || mni_IN ||mni-inscript2-beng.mim ||mni-inscript2-beng.mim
|-
| Marathi || mr_IN || mr-inscript.mim || mr-inscript2.mim
|-
| Nepali || ne_NP || ne-rom.mim ||ne-inscript2-deva.mim
|-
| Odia || or_IN || or-inscript.mim || or-inscript2.mim
|-
| Punjabi || pa_IN || pa-inscript.mim || pa-inscript2-guru.mim
|-
| Sanskrit || sa_IN ||sa-harvard-kyoto.mim ||sa-inscript2.mim
|-
| Santhali || sat_IN ||sat-inscript2-deva.mim ||sat-inscript2-deva.mim
|-
| Sindhi || sd_IN@devanagri || sd-inscript.mim || sd-inscript2-deva.mim
|-
| Tamil || ta_IN || ta-typewriter.mim || ta-inscript2.mim
|-
| Telugu || te_IN || te-inscript.mim || te-inscript2.mim
|}
== Benefit to Fedora ==
Users who want to use Enhanced Inscript keymaps will get to use them
which will now use final released implementation of IS 16350:2016
standard.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
Update the final released Enhanced Inscript Keyboard Layouts standard.
This requires to update m17n-db package which uses
https://pagure.io/inscript2 as upstream for these Enhanced Inscript
keymaps. We will also need to update default keymaps for Indic
languages from Inscript to Enhanced Inscript. This will be done in
ibus-m17n package.
* Other developers:
* Release engineering: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
Users will be moved from Inscript keymaps to Enhanced Inscript
keymaps. Both are compatible to each other except some keymappings
changed for Normal characters as well as Shifted Characters and 3rd
layer (using AltGr) is added to type extra characters.
== How To Test ==
We already have Enhanced Inscript keymaps in Fedora but their
implementation is following draft released standard by Government.
With this Change users can test final released standard keymaps.
They can still use the same testcase
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Inscript2_Keymaps
== User Experience ==
* Users will type characters as per final released Enhanced Inscript
standard keymaps.
== Dependencies ==
m17n-db and ibus-m17n packages will be updated
== Contingency Plan ==
Revert to older Inscript keymaps.
== Documentation ==
We will add some information about this in Release notes.
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
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