[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: lou_translate: unicode output?
- From: Simon Aittamaa <simon.aittamaa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:28:20 +0100
Yeah, I've used this before, but that still lands me with a UCS2/4 string
that needs to be converted to the locale?
Best,
Simon
On 15 January 2015 at 16:21, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Note that if you use the library calls lou_translateString and
> lou_translate you can specify Unicode output by oring the mode bits
> dotsIO and UcBrl . A mode parameter could be added to the lou_translate
> tool.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 02:52:41PM +0000, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as far as I remember it is not possible at the moment, even if you
> > use unicode.dis, it displays \x28xx.
> > the current lou_translate does not assume or check that the terminal is
> > utf-8 aware.
> > On modern Linux/Unix systems this is safe to do, but I
> > don't know if the same can be assumed with windows.
> >
> > If your patch works well on the various platforms we should role in your
> > modifications across all the command line tools, lou_translate,
> > lou_alround etc.
> >
> > What we often use is just lou_translate from python, where it is more
> > straightforward.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> > Mesar
> > On Thu 15/01/15,15:41, Simon Aittamaa wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there any way to output unicode from lou_translate? For example:
> > >
> > > $ echo "Α" | lou_translate -uf unicode.dis,en-ueb-g1.ctb
> > > ⠰⠠⠨⠁
> > >
> > > I've currently patch lou_translate for this, but I was wondering if
> there
> > > is a "standard" way of doing this?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Simon
> > For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>
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>
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