IPA Input Method using X-SAMPA

[Denis Jacquerye <moyogo gmail com>]

Hi,

The current gtk+ IPA Input Method is lacking at lot of commonly used IPA 
(International Phonetics Association) characters.

Instead of arbitrarly adding them to the current im-ipa or creating my 
own sequences, I suggest we use the X-SAMPA standard.
X-SAMPA is a way to type IPA with any ASCII input.
It has a list of sequences that almost completely covers IPA, lacking 
only non-standard IPA and extended-IPA characters.
X-SAMPA is used by the industry and the academia for phonetic 
transcription so people who would potentially use the IPA IM are 
familiar with it or at least might have heard of it.

I opened a bug (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164926) and 
suggested a patch. If applied we might want to change the label of the 
IM from "IPA" to something like "IPA X-SAMPA" to make it obvious what 
the sequences are.

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Denis Jacquerye <moyogo gmail com>
http://home.sus.mcgill.ca/~moyogo