[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Back translation and braille-patterns.cti

  • From: plundblad@xxxxxxxxxx (Peter Lundblad)
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:41:00 -0800

Hi,

Thanks, this seems to have done the trick!

rEgards,
//Peter


Mesar Hameed writes:
> 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
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

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