[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Japanese language support
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 08:02:05 -0700
Hi, getting good Japanese braille and good Chinese braille are both very
difficult propositions. A given Chinese character whether used in Chinese
or Japanese can have dozens of different pronounciations and meanings,
depending on context. So a good braille translation requires a great deal
of context dependence, and this is not something that liblouis is designed
to do. It would be a major undertaking to determine what, if anything, can
be added to liblouis to make it sufficiently context-dependent. A big job
indeed.
Good luck.
John G
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[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Takuya
Nishimoto
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 10:49 PM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Japanese language support
Dear list members,
I am working for Japanese language support of NVDA screen reader.
There are no open-source braille engine commonly used in Japan.
I am studying liblouis to discuss how to implement open-source Japanese
braille translation engine.
Liblouis seems very difficult to support Japanese without adding new
operation commands.
However, louis is the standard engine in the open-source world, so if louis
can support Japanese, it will help not only NVDA, but also other products
such as GNOME or DAISY pipeline.
Please let me know if there are related efforts or discussions in the past.
Best regards,
--
Takuya Nishimoto
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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