[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Updating ar-ar-g1.utb (adding arabic numerals)
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:58:38 -0500
Yes, characters between ASCII 128 and 255 inclusive can be used in the
characters operand of opcodes with no problem. The \xhhhh notation is
recommended for readability by peoploe who don't have the particular
codepage and because some text editors do not handle characters in this
range.
John
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 05:02:44PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Please find attached patch.
>
> Thanks for your patch. I applied a tiny part of it, however most of it I
> didn't use, because I'm not quite sure if it is entirely correct. I
> tried to use ?? in the example as the aleph doesn't show up in the pdf
> output (that might be because the makeinfo tool cannot handle aleph?),
> so I tried with ??. But then I realized that the German tables use
> non-ascii in their operands all over the place (instead of \xhhhh as you
> recommend in your patch) and it seems to work. Maybe this is a side
> effect of using latin-1 as an encoding. So, I'm not sure we should apply
> your doc patch when it is not quite true (at least for the German
> tables).
>
> > I decided to break up the paragraph to a list, to make it easier to read.
>
> I actually thought it was harder to read :-\
>
> I hope we can resolve this issue.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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