[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: UEB: Unicode char representation
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:17:21 +0800
Take a look AT&T inuit table. That writing system is totally Unicode based.
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Greg Kearney
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
On 19/11/2012, at 6:04 PM, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi John and others,
> This is something that we may need to go over before continuing with
> UeB table improvements:
> As you may know, UEB assigns many Unicode chars to dot patterns. This
> include Greek and Latin letters, math symbols, transcriber notes and
> shapes.
> At this time, LibLouis does not handle Unicode chars well - the
> current (old) UEBC table does not even show Greek signs properly,
> which is beyond the range of ASCII chars. If you read a passage
> containing Unicode chars, the current UEBC code shows hex values for
> Unicode chars beyond 255. This fact might be sort of a stumbling block
> for languages which needs to show these Unicode characters (including
> UEBC) using correct braille dot patterns.
> Right now, I decided to experiment with encoding to see which one
> would suit UEBC well - ANSI (works okay, but does not show Unicode
> chars above 255), UTF-8 with or without bomb. It seems that one of
> these two UTF-8 encodings would be best suited for UEBC. However, I
> feel we need to do extensive testing to make sure that UEBC table does
> what it is supposed to do: display complex Unicode symbols using
> correct dot patterns, which would be useful for braille readers who
> needs to access technical materials using correct UEBC signs.
> Thanks.
> //JL
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> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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