[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Back translation and braille-patterns.cti
- From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:22:16 +0100
Hi Peter,
Please replace braille-patterns.cti with the latest from svn revision 838.
It will probably not solve all problems directly, but should at least not give
you unicode braille.
MVH
Mesar
On Mon 26/11/12,16:11, Peter Lundblad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using liblouis for translation in BrailleBack. (*) both for
> forward and backtranslation. Todya, I was testing the de-de-comp8.ctb
> table for user input. It looked great on the braille
> display, but the characters that were actually backtranslated to
> were the unicode braille patterns. The reason for this (ammusing) behaviour
> is that de-de-comp8.ctb includes braille-patterns, which it has
> done since subversion revision 775. It can be fixed by moving the include to
> the bottom of the file (I assume the other directives take precedence then).
>
> Grepping through the tables, a few other files also include the
> braille-patterns.cti
> file in various locations in the files. I'd suspect that back
> translation is more or less broken in those files as well (assuming the intent
> is not to get the braille pattern unicode characters back).
>
> Question: is the proper solution to move the include directive to the
> bottom of the table files or is there a cleaner solution?
> Is there a reason to not always do this?
>
> Thanks,
> //Peter
>
> *) For those who wonder, brailleback is the Google android app that
> provides braille display support on recent versions of the android platform.
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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