Ubuntu 9.10, iBus, kbd, Myanmar Input

I just upgraded my ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 through update manager.

It has iBus built-in Installed (I think so :D)

I found that there is Myanmar Keyboard Layout Already, just need choose from pulldown and add it.

Seems for Myanmar Keyboard iBus using kbd

Here is kbd default location for Myanmar

/usr/share/m17n/my-kbd.mim

File content is something like this,

Unfortunately, It is Unicode 4.1 based, Myanmar1.

Fortunately, Its in linux, we can customize it easily :D

kbd seems better than xkb, because in xkb we cannot assign more than one character in one key stroke.

kbd seems can do that, because default keyman is Unicode 4.1,
Unicode 4.1 has special character sequences for ပင့္ ရစ္ ဆြဲ ထိုး and
they are need to write like ¥u1039 + ယ ရ ဝ ဟ , 2 chars for each values.

Then we can customize for other fonts like Zawgyi :-)

For which we cannot do before with xkb, like (--Q = -ွ်, W = -ႊၽ),
You can do with kbd + ibus right now :-)

Cheers,
Mark