[Koha-bugs] [Bug 12815] New: Adding support of jquery.ime to Koha

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12815

            Bug ID: 12815
           Summary: Adding support of jquery.ime to Koha
 Change sponsored?: Sponsored
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P3
         Component: I18N/L10N
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: indradg at gmail.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: frederic at tamil.fr

This patch intends to add support for jQuery.IME to Koha's staff client and
OPAC. 

Koha's Indian users in particular have long been demanded a clean method for
multi-lingual input support from with the browser. Back in 2009, there was some
development around Google Indic Transliteration which supported about 13 major
languages from around the Indian sub-continent-
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5621. However, it
ultimately failed QA and was not available.

In 2011, Google Transliteration API was deprecated, and while it is still
available, the Google ToS do not extend well towards a Free Software project.
So, I revisited the jQuery.IME project[1] again. It has matured a lot since
then with over 135 input methods spread over 67 languages[2]. This count is
growing as the library is key to Wikimedia's UniversalLanguageSelector[3] and
VisualEditor stack[4].

The best part of this patch is that it doesn't add anything persistent on the
viewport real estate. The code hooks into input fields of text / textarea types
and become available to the user on-demand.

The library remains dual-licensed under GPLv2+ and MIT.

Reference: 

[1] https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Milkshake/status
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector
[4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor

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