[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New bugfix release?

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:55:37 -0600

About the UEB tables. Character definitions should bo in 
ueb-chardefs.cti not in en-ueb-g1.ctb Character definition opcodes must 
be used. the always opcode does not define a character.

John

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:37:05AM -0800, Joseph Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> This is for 2.6 release:
> In terms of Korean, once Mesar sends me the test harness, I plan 
> to test the newly added table.  If that passes, I plan to start 
> real young on Korean contracted braille table (to be done in 
> January).
> For UEB, I think we have some good foundation with grade 2 - next 
> up would be adding symbols under Grade 1 table.  There are some 
> technical hurdles (such as file encoding and Unicode characters) 
> to overcome with UEB grade 1, but given the January deadline, I'm 
> sure we can find some solutions to this.
> As for 2.5.2, I'm all for release when it is ready (next week) so 
> I and others can test it under NVDA source.
> Cheers,
> Joseph
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx
> To: liblouis-liblouisxml <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date sent: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:15:03 +0100
> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] New bugfix release?
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Back in November Bert fixed a problem in svn with the correct 
> opcode
> that had caused some faulty translations in our production.  This 
> bug
> caused randomly faulty translations.  In essence correct can 
> shorten the
> inbuf and if the indexes are not updated properly the code looks 
> at
> memory beyond the inbuf and takes decisions based on this 
> (random)
> content.
> 
> So I would like to create a bug fix release that I can deploy in 
> our
> production real soon now, i.e.  beginning of next week and upload 
> it to
> the Google code site.
> 
> Are there any other changes that are ready to go in that I need 
> to wait
> for?
> 
> I think it is clear that with all the new table writers we should 
> really
> push the table tracer/debugger that Bert has been working on.  
> But that
> should go in a next release maybe in January of next year.
> 
> Thanks
> Christian
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