https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35457

--- Comment #3 from Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> 
2012-03-25 04:22:19 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Submitted the change code changes for this feature:
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/3694
> 
> Waiting for review and merge.
> 
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > What's a feature without a use case? Please provide a reason why.
> 
> One use case: people want to convert/create Unicode character from its code
> number.
> For example, by typing '\u0D05\' it should be converted to 'അ'. Please see the
> code change for Malayalam transliteration in the commit, that function
> implements it.

hexcode based inputting does not seem to be a valid usecase here. It is very
advanced and it is for people know the hexcode of characters.

['\\\\u([0-9a-fA-F]{4})\\\\', '', narayam_ml_unicode_char_convert], // use
callback
Here the conversion is nothing specific to Malayalam, because we allow any 4
character length hexcodes. Moreover the length 4 rule is unnecessary.

All operating systems allow direct unicode inputting. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#Hexadecimal_code_input. In Gnome, I
can type using hexadecimal characters by control+shift+ u + <hexcode>.

> Also callbacks can be used to combine several rules those share some behavior.

I agree here.  Do you have any patters where this can be used?

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