[liblouis-liblouisxml] Back-translation of French
- From: "Jonathan Sharp" <jonathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:03:48 +1300
Hi John,
I'm evaluating the new French tables for possible use in a project that
needs both forward and back translation. I've found some problems with
back-translation and these are also present in the older French tables, so
are not a result of the recent changes. Here's an example:
If I forward-translate "pierre" I get "pi(re", which is correct. Now if I
back-translate "pi(re", I get "pi(re" still - the left-parenthesis is not
translated back into "er".
If the "er" occurs at the end of a word, such as "marcher", then it is
back-translated correctly. However in this case the "ar" contraction is not
back-translated while the "ch" contraction is back-translated correctly.
Looking at the braille table there are two entries for "er", one for the
middle of a word:
before con midword er 236
and one for the end of a word:
endword er 236
It seems the endword entry is back-translating correctly while the midword
one is not.
The "ar" entries are:
before con always ar 4
endword ar 4
whereas "ch", which works only has one entry:
always ch 12356
Trying some of the other entries, I wonder if the problem occurs when the
user-defined character classes, con, voy, etc. are used?
Jonathan
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