[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: lou_translate: unicode output?
- From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:00:04 +0100
Oh. Right. Yes it's only UTF-8. Using iconv and falling back on a very simple
encoder sounds very reasonable. Encoding unicode braille as UTF-8 or UTF-16 are
just oneliners. And we'll add some automake checks for iconv.
What branch are you working on?
Simon Aittamaa writes:
> 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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