Thai Issues for Ubuntu Localisation Sprint

General

console-tools, console-data: Thai console fonts and keymap
- Dapper debs are available.
- Ubuntu Bug #35340, Ubuntu Bug #47305

Missing 'th_pat' and 'th_tis' XKB symbols in X.org 7.0 (used to be there in previous versions)
Not an issue: use "th(pat)" and "th(tis)" instead
XKB setup choices:
1. "us,th" -option grp:alt_shift_toggle [default]
2. "us,th(pat)" -option grp:alt_shift_toggle
3. "us,th(tis)" -option grp:alt_shift_toggle,lv3:ralt_shift
Not done yet: need to patch console-data first
ttf-thai-tlwg: Thai TTF with(out?) OpenType tables
- thaifonts-scalable project
- ttf-thai-tlwg Thai free TrueType fonts
- Dapper debs are available.
- Should close Ubuntu Bug #30527, Ubuntu Bug #30528
Input Methods
- SCIM is too primitive for Thai (only keysym translation, no input sequence validation)
  Removed from language-support-th package
- gtk-im-libthai for GTK+ applications
  im-switch setup:
```
XMODIFIERS="@im=BasicCheck"
GTK_IM_MODULE="thai-libthai"
QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
```
  Done in gtk-im-libthai 0.1.3-0ubuntu2
- XIM for Qt/X applications
  im-switch setup:
```
XMODIFIERS="@im=BasicCheck"
GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"  # default for missing gtk-im-libthai
QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
```
  Proposed in im-switch 1.3.1, but may be done in language-support-th or language-pack-th instead

libthai
- pango-libthai for word breaking
- gtk-im-libthai for locale-indepent GTK+ input method
- Dapper debs are available.
file name encoding
translation of Ubuntu-specific messages

Yet untouched in this sprint:

Last Updated: 2006-05-30 23:47 +0700