[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Latest Vietnamese 6 dot table
- From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:47:53 +0100
Okay great!
Harri Pasanen writes:
> Basically it has nothing to do with the existing vi.ctb.
>
> vi.ctb appears to be a 8 dot table and not really readable via screen
> readers to Vietnamese speakers, as it only has liblouis unicode codes
> for the characters, not the actual characters.
>
> vi-g1.ctb has 6 dot support only, but it should cover the full character
> set, using multi-cell signs as necessary. It is also in a format more
> friendly to native speakers. I don't speak Vietnamese myself, so native
> speaker help is crucial to do a proper job.
>
> It is still work in progress, but should be usable at least for back
> translation.
> I wrote the initial version myself, then I got some help to complete it
> from Vietnamese
> MBraille users who initially started the ball rolling by requesting
> support for writing Vietnamese.
>
> Regards,
>
> Harri
>
> On 13/02/2015 11:16, Bert Frees wrote:
>> Hello Harri,
>>
>> Thank you very much! I've created a pull request:
>> https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/pull/51.
>>
>> How does this table relate to the existing Vietnamese table vi.ctb?
>>
>> Bert
>>
>> Harri Pasanen writes:
>>
>>> Please find attached.
>>>
>>> I still need to find the time to do some test cases for it, but it
>>> should be a good start already and usable at least for back translation.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Harri
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