[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: braille-patterns.cti: U+2800
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:37:21 -0500
I don't know why hex 2800 wasn't defined as 0. In general, I don't have
much to do with tables except those for us-en and for math. I think
there is another table with "unicode" in its name, that has the correct
dot paterns. Or you could just change the table you are looking at.
John
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 02:42:01AM +1000, James Teh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The Unicode character U+2800 (written as \x2800 in liblouis) represents
> a blank cell; i.e. no dots. However, in braille-patterns.cti, is defined
> as follows:
>
> sign \x2800 28a # ??? BRAILLE
> PATTERN DOTS-0
>
> Why is this defined as dots 2 and 8, plus virtual dot "a"? Should it not
> be defined as 0?
>
> I was hoping to use this table to support Unicode braille in NVDA, but
> this issue makes that somewhat strange.
>
> Thanks,
> Jamie
>
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