[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Grouping tables according to language and Braille code
- From: James Teh <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis/liblouisxml mailing list <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:23:20 +1000
On 25/07/2012 8:28 AM, Mesar Hameed wrote:
table en-us-g2.ctb, English-us, Grade 2
Yes, one is provided by the first touple element, and the description as the
second element, Or did I miss understand you?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think John wants the language to be
separate from the table description; e.g. grade 2 separate from US English.
the first element of the touple needs to always be the same so that orca or
nvda do not get confused when i reset their respective interfaces,
also good for saving user preferences.
@Jamie, have I overlooked anything?
There still needs to be computer readable metadata about the language of
the table and what type of table it is; e.g. whether it's computer,
uncontracted or contracted braille. There was again recent discussion
about encoding this in the file name, so perhaps code can just parse the
table/file name to get this info. A related question is whether the idea
of grade 1 being uncontracted and grade 2 and above being contracted is
common to all languages. (Some languages seem to have a grade 0 and some
grade 3 or more.) If not, we need a separate table type specification.
To make things even more confusing, some tables are the native table for
certain countries, but aren't named as such. For example, UEBC is used
in Australia. It might be good to be able to specify that these tables
can be used for locale en-AU, perhaps via a language opcode which can
take multiple arguments.
How are we going to generate the gettext .po files from these tables? I
assume we'll need to write our own tool to do this. This isn't
especially problematic, but just curious.
Jamie
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