ad-hoc session Linux at the Munich city administration

[Max Harmathy]

Hi,

Florian (fhaftamnn) has set up a page [1] to find a slot for an ad-hoc
session to talk about Linux at the Munich city administration. The time
is in UTC. If you are interested, please enter your preferred slots
until today 21:00 UTC!

[1] https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/dc20limux/


Greetings
Max



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Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

[Max Harmathy]

Hi,

I had my first talk at DebConf18 and I found it very helpful to have
questions during the talk. It even led to a fullow-up BoF session.

While I appreciate the effort to make conferences a comfortable to
newcomers as possible, we should not loose focus on the content of the
talks. After all we are coming together to interact with each other and
discuss on a technical level.

Max



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Re: BoF: Issues for Non-Latin Script

[Max Harmathy]

Forwarding additional content in the gobby notes after the BoF:


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the following questions are raised after the the discussion but i felt
it is good to document them here for reference

1. Shortcut issues when switching keyboard layouts. For example
switching between Hiragana(that is, japanese keyboard layout) and Dvorak.
2. XIM doesn't support both "cursor following" and "preedit" to be
present at the same time. It is a switch between "On the spot" and "Over
the spot" (XIM also comes with a lot of other warts that need to be
addressed)
3. up-down, right-to-left layout that is prevalent in both traditional
chinese and japanese. This layout is not well supported.



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BoF: Issues for Non-Latin Script

[Max Harmathy]

Thanks to attendees to the “Issues in the Font Rendering Stack for
Non-Latin Scripts BoF”!

For non-latin script users there are many pitfalls and there is much
work left to do for making their life easier.

pleas  find attached the gobby notes, which are also on gobby.debian.org.

Max
* install gobby
* gobby.debian.org
* debconf18/bof/non-latin-issues

Issues with non-latin script



Font rendering issue(s)
* CJK Han unification

right to left writing
-
Good support in QT and GTK. Not so where they are not used. Specifically: not 
in a terminal.
pipe into bidiv

r2l (bidirectional) - hebrew, arabic, farsi, urdu and others
  Not only R2L - Some glyphs have to modify (ligate with?) the preceding one.

harfbuzz - Can properly render multiple glyphs sorting out fine positioning
between them. Requires the information from the fonts

Rubyscript(?) is an aid to pronunciation that adds aids for pronuntiation.
Furigana(?) in Japanese is fully supported. This seems to be a tension issue
in Taiwan, it's hard to find proper typesetting. Contact should be made for
collaboration! Norbert Preining offers his support. (Zhuyin 注音符號)
Example: W3C Ruby support: http://rocksaying.tw/archives/2912837.html

Question - Is there a standard way to encode Furigana/Rubyscript i.e. to UTF8, 
into a stream of characters?

Linux kernel console
* Useless for CJK, at least
  (Workarounds: CJKTTY patch, fbterm, ... or kmscon -- Linux KMS/DRM based 
virtual Console Emulator? 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700210 )

(reports of reproducible-builds issues derived from RTL - don't remember 
exactly what triggered them..?)

Another issue to discuss - Input methods... fcitx (chinese development) has 
excellent support. The mixes between keyboard layouts and input methods leads 
to really confusing situations.


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