Changes/Enhanced Inscript as default Indic IM

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: Parag Nemade
• Email: <pnemade@fedoraproject.org>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 35
• Last updated: 2021-07-09
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

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 IS 16350:2016 standard.

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.