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devanagari diacritics
From: |
Rustom Mody |
Subject: |
devanagari diacritics |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:42:06 +0530 |
There have been a couple of independent questions on help.gnu.emacs
for typing devanagari-as-diacritics in the last couple of weeks.
Emacs as of now comes with a couple of devanagari modes for typing
devanagari but not romanized diacritics for devanagari.
Firstly, does something like this exist?
In any case, I came up with the following:
There is one thing I dont know how to do -- how do you make an rule
that expands to more than one character. For example we may want "c"
to expand to "ch"
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(require 'quail)
(quail-define-package
"devanagari-diacritic" "UTF-8" "अ" t
"Example diacritic
" nil t t nil t nil nil nil nil nil t)
;; no much idea what all these nil/t's are
;; just copied it from something David de la Harpe Golden wrote
(defvar devanagari-map
'(("A" ?ā)
("I" ?ī)
("U" ?ū)
("~N" ?ṅ)
("~n" ?ñ)
("N" ?ṇ)
("T" ?ṭ)
("D" ?ḍ)
("sh" ?ś)
("Sh" ?ṣ)
))
(defun quail-block-defrules (kb quail-package)
(dolist (key-trans devanagari-map)
(let ((key (car key-trans))
(trans (cadr key-trans)))
(quail-defrule key trans quail-package))))
(quail-block-defrules devanagari-map "devanagari-diacritic")
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