[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: lou_translate: unicode output?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:16:15 -0600
I don't think that using a dependency that is available only on *noix is
a good idea. Probably liblouis is most used with Windows, to say nothing
of OSX. I would like to see liblouis with no dependencies.
John
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:00:04AM +0100, Bert Frees wrote:
> 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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