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

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:03:53 -0500

In the section on Writing Translation Tables in the documentation it is 
stated that character-definnition opcodes should proceed everything else 
except display opcodes. I will check just what is said and maybe state 
this more forcefully.

John

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 01:09:17AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Birkir Gunnarsson, le Sat 11 Sep 2010 21:38:59 +0000, a ?crit :
> > 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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