Hi,
I am new to Linux and Debian.I am trying to build a custom layout for my mother
tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala).
The problem I am trying to tackle:
One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more commonly in its
geminate form which is composed of three unicode charcters ങ ് ങ (U+
in what I am doing or am I missing something? Other than creating the .XCompose
file in the home folder, should I tell the system in some way that the compose
mechanism should be activated? (BTW, I tried restarting the computer after the
change).
I am running Debian 10, KDE Plasma 5.14.5, 6
reboot and try in Kate
again.ajith
On Tuesday, 7 July, 2020, 12:04:46 pm IST, davidson
wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 davidson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +0000, Ajith R wrote:
[snip]
>> The problem I am trying to tackle:
>>
>> One of the Malayalam le
omposing, my
.XCompose is just include "%L"
: "✄" U2704 # WHITE SCISSORS
Thanks,ajith
On Tuesday, 7 July, 2020, 2:07:52 am IST, davidson
wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 davidson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrot
Hi David,
>>>
Debian conformant style looks like this instead:
>>>
Do I understand the style correctly now? BTW, a query about how the original
message is quoted with '<'. Is it done by hand or does any email clients do it
automatically? Is it necessary that each line s marked with '<'? Or
Hi David,
>>>
As a rule, send replies to the listserv address:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
2. In-Line replies, instead of Top-Posting
3. I apologise for being a Terrible Person
>>>
I didn't pay attention to the fact that the from address in the email was yours
and not that of the list se
Hi Zenaan,
I'm not sure if it's been asked or stated by you, but which desktop are you
using?
I am using KDE
Thanks,
ajith
Hi Greg,
>
Does your Caps Lock key work for Compose if you set it with:
xmodmap -e "keysym Caps_Lock = Multi_key"
>
I tried this and found that the test definition in .XCopose file is working.
However, when I change the .XCompose definition to <ങ>
: "✄"
or to
<ങ> <
Hi Zenaan,
> Under the "Layout" tab, I have the option for "Compose key" - this is a drop
> down list, and I chose the "Scroll Lock" key as my compose key.
Similar options are there for KDE too. I tried setting the Compose key from the
KDE settings menu after trying xmodmap -e "keysym Caps_Loc
Hi,
Thanks for your experiment. The fact that it works atleast in some applications
gives hope.
I copied your exact sentences to my compose file.
In Konsole the command cat ~/.XCompose gives the result:
include "%L"
: "ങ്ങ" # Ajith's auto-geminate rule, (U0D19) => (U0D19) (U0D4D)
(U0D19)
Hi All,
I will start with what I did in sequence
Using Konsole from my home directory
1)executed setxkbmap -layout us
2)executed xmodmap which gave the following output
xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_
Hi Greg,
> I would imagine you were trying to pass a Unicode character. If that's
> the case, you need the \u or \U form instead.
>
> grep $'\u00A0' .XCompose
>
> Unicode character 00A0 is a non-breaking space. It's not clear whether
> that was your intention or not.
Yes, that was my intent
Hi Greg,
> In it, there is a brief mention of some option you can toggle called
> "Show Non-Printable Spaces", whose description is "Show/hide bounding
> box around non-printable spaces."
Yes, though not very obvious, Kate does show the non breaking sapces with an
open box after selecting the op
Hi David,
> And I assume they're not in the files that you wrote from scratch,
> like .XCompose. Would that be right?
Yes, I couldn't find any in my XCompose file and in the layout file.
> Kate appears to be a normal text editor. The third sentence of its
> official description (https://kate-ed
I was trying to send this mail for the past few days. It was not getting
distributed probably because it is lengthy. So, I am trying to send it as two
emails. This first part is being continued in the next email
Hi David,
> OK. I wonder whether the problem you're having with using XCompose
This is the second part of my email.
> Note that the whitespace in your *attached* file (mixed tabs and
> saces) matched my own, whereas the file here in your post does not.
> That suggests that the 0xc2 0xa0 sequences may be a result of your
> copy/paste operation.
By "the file here in your pos
This is the third part - the layout file is comprssed and attached
ajith
in.tar.gz
Description: application/gzip
On Thursday 16 July 2020 4:54:09 AM IST davidson wrote:
> And so you have set up known environmental conditions for subsequent
> tests of that mechanism.
Yes, that was my intention
> which permits me to toggle my keyboard layout between two alternatives
> ("us" and "ru") by striking caps
On Thursday 16 July 2020 5:27:16 AM IST davidson wrote:
> ie, see whether there are nonbreaking spaces in the message body.
> I attach ajith_msgbody_replace_nbsp.txt, which contains a '%'
> character wherever a nonbreaking space was in the original.
Thanks. So, the non-breaking spaces ar
Hi,
> Mapping unicode to UTF-8
Thanks for the explanation and the references. I am starting to understand the
idea. Hopefully, after going through the references everyone has given, I will
understand it clearly.
> Example 2. Don't know the name of this one. I tell myself it
> represents a
Hi,
> I seem to recall that he puts Perl at the top of the
> heap, and notes that Perl compatible regular expressions (PCRE) are
> available via libraries in other programming languages.
Thanks for confirming that I didn't make a wrong choice. Programs that claim to
use PCRE don't support ever
Hi,
> These two too:
> RFC 3629 - UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 (14 pages)
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3629
>
> The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard.
> http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/
>
> In present version 13.0.0 of the latter,
> * A brief feature summary
Hi,
> First, there is a somewhat specific question about unspecified
> substitutions. For all I know about these substitutions, you might
> actually need XSLT to do them properly.
The substitution that I had in mind requires referring to characters based on
their unicode properties like script,
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion.
No, I don't do unicode scripting regularly.
My requirment was a one time requirment to analyse frequency of Malayalam text
to design a keyboard layout.
But sure, I will keep your suggestion in mind if such requirment comes up
frequently.
ajith
Hi,
> Try again, for firefox-esr (and with a ~/.XCompose file that is not
> befouled with nonbreaking spaces).
>
> But make one change to the procedure. When you launch firefox-esr, do
> so like this:
>
> $ env GTK_IM_MODULE=xim firefox-esr
>
> Let us know how that goes.
I made a fresh instal
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