* NEWS -- What's new in the m17n database.			-*- outline -*-
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  Registration Number H15PRO112
See the end for copying conditions.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.6.1

** This release is just for a minor bug fix.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.6.0

** An input method is deleted.

si-wijesekera-preedit.mim

** New FLT files are added.

FLT/MLM2-OTF.flt, FLT/KND2-OTF.flt, FLT/TEL2-OTF.flt,
FLT/TML2-OTF.flt, FLT/ORY2-OTF.flt, FLT/GJR2-OTF.flt,
FLT/GUR2-OTF.flt, FLT/BNG2-OTF.flt, FLT/DEV2-OTF.flt,
FLT/MYMR-SIL.flt


* Changes in the m17n database 1.5.5

** An input method is deleted.

si-wijesekera-preedit-alt.mim

** These Vietnamese input methods adopt smart-quotes.

vi-telex.mim, vi-tcvn.mim, vi-vni.mim


* Changes in the m17n database 1.5.4

** A new input method is added.

ta-lk-renganathan.mim (Tamil)


* Changes in the m17n database 1.5.3

This release is just for bug fixing.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.5.2

** A new input method is added.

sa-harvard-kyoto.mim (Sanscrit)


* Changes in the m17n database 1.5.1

** A new FLT is added.

CHAM-GENERIC.flt (For Cham script)

** Several new input methods are added.

vi-tcvn.mim (Vietnamese)
cmc-kbd.mim (Cham)
sa-harvard-kyoto.mim (Sanscrit)


* Changes in the m17n database 1.5.0

** A new FLT is added.

COMBINING.flt (For combining diacritical marks)


* Changes in the m17n database 1.4.0

** Several new input methods are added.

da-post.mim (Danish)
bo-ewts.mim (Tibetan)
fr-azerty.mim (French)

** New database for language names.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.3.4

** Several new input methods are added.

grc-mizuochi.mim (Greek)
ja-trycode.mim (Japanese)
ru-phonetic.mim (Russian)
si-wijesekera-preedit.mim (Sinhala)
th-kesmanee-2.mim, th-pattachote.mim th-pattachote-2.mim (Thai)
th-tis820.mim th-tis820-2.mim (Thai)
ug-kbd.mim (Uyghur)
zh-bopomofo.mim (Chinese bopomofo, renamed from bopo-kbd.mim)

** Several new FLTs are added.

LAOO-OTF.flt (Lao)
THAI-OTF.flt (Thai)

** Gettextized.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.3.0

** Wildcard handling is added to mdb.dir.

For instance, the current mdb.dir file contains this single line:
  (input-method * "*.mim")
instead of lines for each input methods.

** Several new input methods are added.

bn-unijoy.mim (Bengali)
hi-typewriter.mim (Hindi)
lo-kbd.mim (Lao)
si-wijesekera.mim (Sinhala)
sv-post.mim (Swedish)
vi-vni.mim (Vietnamese)
zh-cangjie.mim, zh-quick.mim (Chinese)
zh-py-b5.mim, zh-py-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-py.mim)
zh-tonepy-b5.mim, zh-tonepy-gb.mim (Chinese, restricted version of zh-tone.mim)

** Several new FLTs are added.

ARAB-OTF-NO-GPOS.flt (Arabic)
KHMR-OTF.flt (Khmer)
LAOO-GENERIC.flt (Lao)
MLYM-RACHANA.flt (Malayalam)
THAI-GENERIC.flt (Thai)
TIBT-OTF.flt (Tibetan)


* Changes in the m17n database 1.2.0

** Naming convention for *.flt and *.mim is changed.

Script names : ISO 15924 (four letter codes)
Language names : ISO 639-1 (two letter codes)
See ChangeLog for details.

** Several new input methods are added.

dv-phonetic.mim (Thaana script)
hy-kbd.mim (Armenian script)
ko-romaja.mim (Korean Hangul script)
my-kbd.mim (Myanmar script)
si-samanala.mim (Sinhala script)
zh-pinyin.min (PinYin script)
bopo-kbd.mim (Bopomofo script)
syrc-phonetic.mim (Syriac script)
latn-pre.mim (Latin script)

** Several new FLTs are added.

SINH-OTF.flt (Sinhala script)
SYRC-OTF.flt (Syriac script)

** Several new char-tables are added.

BLOCK.tab (Unicode Blocks)
CASE-MAPPING.tab CASED.tab SOFT-DOTTED.tab (for case conversion)
LINEBREAK.tab (for linebreaking)
LANGUAGE.tbl (ISO639-1, ISO639-2 language codes)
SCRIPT-LANGUAGE.tbl (script vs languages)

** A new fontset generic.fst is added.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.1.0

** Several new FLTs are added.

ARABIC-OTF.flt (Arabic script)
BEN-OTF.flt (Bengali script)
GUJ-OTF.flt (Gujarati script)
GUR-OTF.flt (Gurmukhi script)
KAN-OTF.flt (Kannada script)
MYANMAR-ZEDI.flt (Myanmar script)
ORI-OTF.flt (Oriya script)
TEL-OTF.flt (Telugu script)
THAANA-OTF.flt (Thaana script)
TML-OTF.flt (Tamil script)

** Several new input methods are added.

sr-kbd.mim (Serbian)
hr-kbd.mim (Croatian)
ka-kdb.mim (Georgian)
kk-arabic.mim (Kazakh in Arabic script)
kk-kdb.mim (Kazakh in Cyrillic script)

** New command m17n-db prints information about the installed m17n database.


* Changes in the m17n database 1.0

** Released.


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