[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Icelandic 6 and 8 dot tables.
- From: Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:20:47 +0000
Hi
I will look into this and rework it.
By "characters" are we talking any character or just the 26 English characters.
I specified the 10 special Icelandic characters at the top of the 6-dot table,
perhaps, to Liblouis, they are symbols not actual characters, since they are
only used in the Icelandic language (or mostly anyway).
I will rework that table and try to get the test apps compiled.
I am a little unclear on the translation documentation in places, but I will
reread it.
If I discover something and feel it might be stated more clearly and that would
help other users (heck, sometimes I am just a bit slow and that might be the
cause). I can write up the point, suggested wording and send it to John, or
whoever else, for consideration.
Thanks guys, I know you are all busy, I just want to make sure there is a way
forward to get this done, it does not have to happen today or even this week.
-Birkir
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Sent: 12. september 2010 03:04
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Icelandic 6 and 8 dot tables.
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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