[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Icelandic 6 and 8 dot tables.

  • From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:09:17 +0200

Hello,

Birkir Gunnarsson, le Sat 11 Sep 2010 21:38:59 +0000, a écrit :
> Have not heard anything about committing these tables to liblouis.

It takes time to find out time to have a look at them :)

I have translated them to the brltty format and sent Dave Mielke a
patch, so it'll be in brltty.

For liblouis, lou_checktable doesn't complain on the 8dot table, and
produces the following warnings on the 6dot table:

€ lou_checktable /tmp/is-chardefs6.cti 
is-chardefs6.cti:32: Dot pattern \3456/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:33: Dot pattern \6/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:34: Dot pattern \6/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:34: Dot pattern \6/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:35: Dot pattern \6/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:35: Dot pattern \6/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:37: Dot pattern \4/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:37: Dot pattern \34/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:38: Dot pattern \34/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:38: Dot pattern \4/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:40: Dot pattern \4/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:40: Dot pattern \456/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:41: Dot pattern \456/ is not defined.
is-chardefs6.cti:41: Dot pattern \4/ is not defined.
14 errors found.

AIUI, this is because you need to define these patterns before using
them in numsign & such. Just moving these "Braille Indicators" lines to
the end of the file fixes things.

On another side, your 8dot file gives non-ascii characters to the
sign/lowercase/etc. commands, and your file is apparently encoded in
latin1.  To make sure things work ok on all systems independently on
its default charset, you should replace these with unicode numbers.
Non-ascii characters in comments are fine, however, but should probably
be encoded in utf-8.  If you don't know how to produce a utf-8 file,
just send it as you have already done and we'll convert it to utf-8.

Samuel
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