[Koha] Proposed patch to add in-browser support of Indian/non-Latin language typing in Koha

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi all,

[apologies for X-Posting]

Browser based on-the-fly transliterated input on the OPAC was a
long-standing requirement particularly in the Indian Koha user
community. Indian government recognises 22 official languages for the
purpose of official correspondance. The earlier attempts to add
GoogleIndicTransliteration was a step in this direction. But that
attempt did not finally clear QA.

Google Transliteration API was deprecated in June 2011 and it's
general Terms of Service (ToS) are not FOSS friendly. In contrast,
jQuery.IME is dual-licensed under GPLv2+ and MIT. It is a key
component of Wikimedia's (the organisation behind Wikipedia.org)
global language engineering stack. At present, this represents robust,
well tested support for over 135 input methods spanning over 67
languages.

I've uploaded a patch
(http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=31152)
against the bug number
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12815. The
patch is against the current Koha master. I would like to request
interested users to have a look and preferably test it. The patch work
both in the OPAC as well as in Koha's staff client interface.

Screenshots of the patch in action: http://imgur.com/a/2gB7H#0 and
http://imgur.com/a/2gB7H#2

cheers,
-indra

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