docs: record the considered-but-not-committed backlog - #25
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Ideas that were weighed and set aside had nowhere to live, so the same discussion would just get re-run. docs/backlog.md keeps them with the reasoning: candidate layouts (Persian, Hindi InScript, Bulgarian БДС — cheap because each is one table, and each brings its own audience), the extension follow-ups held until v0.6 actually ships, and — most usefully — what we deliberately will NOT do and why. The Turkish Q/F entry is the one worth writing down: it is Latin to Latin, so toEn's script-range auto-detection cannot tell which side a string is on. Adding it would mean an explicit-mode-only exception to the whole detection model, which costs more than the layout is worth. Without that note someone re-proposes it every year. Also records the signal the call rests on (0 issues ever, ~23 weekly downloads as of 2026-08-09) and the rule being applied.
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Ideas weighed and set aside had nowhere to live, so the same discussion would get re-run later.
docs/backlog.mdkeeps them with the reasoning, linked from both READMEs:defineLayouttable each) and each brings its own audience; notes that fa shares the Arabic script range and bg shares Cyrillic, so both need the same coverage-based disambiguation ru/uk already use.toEn's script-range detection cannot tell which side a string is on. Adding it means an explicit-mode-only exception to the entire detection model, which costs more than the layout is worth. Without this written down, someone re-proposes it every year. (Chinese/Japanese are already excluded in the README for the candidate-selection reason.)contenteditable,_locales— held until v0.6 actually ships, since store feedback may reorder them.It also records the signal the call rests on (0 issues ever, ~23 weekly downloads as of 2026-08-09) and the rule — demand-gated, an entry is not a promise.
Docs only; no version bump (0.5.2 was just published and there is nothing functional to republish for).