[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: lou_translate: unicode output?
- From: Simon Aittamaa <simon.aittamaa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:39:26 +0100
Hi Bert,
That patch is only for UTF-8 output, unless I missed something? My patch is
based on iconv, which I would say is preferable on *nix systems...
As I suggested earlier, we could introduce a new function,
showStringUnicode() which in turn could use iconv (if available), and
fallback on hand-crafted UTF-8 on encoder on *nix and hand-crafted encoder
for UTF-16 on windows (or simply use the windows API).
Since we are _probably_ only going to output a limited subset of Unicode,
i.e. U+2800..U+28FF, we don't have spend that much time on handling
edge-cases, we can simply error-out on anything that isn't a
braille-pattern, or?
Best,
Simon
On 15 January 2015 at 19:28, Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> I thought I had added a unicode option to lou_translate, but it was
> lou_trace
> and it's on a branch:
>
> https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/0b162ae430317713db5594d342f0a598813e79a3.
> Your
> patch is probably similar? Maybe we could combine our stuff, make sure
> it's done
> consistently etc. So if you want you can add changes to my branch,
> otherwise
> I'll assume it's okay and I just add the option to lou_translate.
>
> Thanks,
> Bert
>
>
> Simon Aittamaa writes:
>
> > 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
>
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