Re: "bengali-probhat" input method don't work as expected (by me)

[Visuwesh]

[செவ்வாய் ஆகஸ்ட் 09, 2022] Akib Azmain Turja wrote:

> I use Dvorak keyboard layout (actually the OS is converting QWERTY keys
> to Dvorak).  All input methods were broken for me.
>
> So I've added the following to quail-keyboard-layout-alist:
>
> ("dvorak" . "                                1!2@3#4$5%6^7&8*9(0)[{]}`~\
> '\",<.>pPyYfFgGcCrRlL/?=+      aAoOeEuUiIdDhHtTnNsS-_\\|      ;:qQjJkKx\
> XbBmMwWvVzZ                                      ")
>
> And set quail-keyboard-layout to Dvorak using quail-set-keyboard-layout.
>
> After doing the above, "english-dvorak" works as expected (yeah, that's
> not a great idea, but just to make sure it works), but still there is
> no effect on "bengali-probhat" input method.  It looks like that it
> assumes that I'm using QWERTY and converts the keys like that.
>
> And by the way, why M-x describe-input-method RET english-dvorak shows
> nice keyboard while M-x describe-input-method RET bengali-probhat shows
> just a (translation?) table?

This is because the bengali-probhat input method is not declared as a
"keyboard layout".  The quail translation stuff kicks in only for those
input methods that have the KBD-TRANSLATE argument non-nil.  Does the
following patch work for you?

diff --git a/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el b/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
index e652f108dd..431d8369c1 100644
--- a/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
+++ b/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ "X"
 ;; Probhat Input Method
 (quail-define-package
  "bengali-probhat" "Bengali" "BngPB" t
- "Probhat keyboard for Bengali/Bangla" nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
+ "Probhat keyboard for Bengali/Bangla" nil t nil t t nil nil nil nil nil t)

 (quail-define-rules
   ("!" ?!)

You can simply eval the quail-define-package and quail-define-rules
forms after applying the patch to see the results.