[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Please look at make check
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:09:30 -0500
Hi Mesar,
I'm glad that your testing verifies that the UTF-8 support works. Also,
I rather thought that the problem with make check was something peculiar
in my setup.
I've figured out how to detect some invalid UTF-8 sequences, though I
don't think there is a foolproof solution. It will be simple to code,
and there are a few loose ends to tie up. I would rather not lose the
ability to accept Latin-1. The documentation could certainly state that
it is deprecated.
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:25:04PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Wed 04/07/12,21:49, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Support for UTF-8 seems to be working. I've tested several of the tables
> > on the list that Christian sent on Monday. They work. I tested
> > de-de-g2.ctb with lou_translate, and it appeared to produce correct
> > results.
>
> Thanks for the quick turnaround, with the testing I've managed to do today
> everything looks great.
>
> > When I run make check I get the error that lou_checktable
> > cannot be found. Maybe I'm just running it in the wrong directory.
> > Please check.
>
> Everything runs fine here.
>
> > Since the tables are input files, parseChars in
> > compileTranslationTable.c should check for invalid UTF-8 character
> > sequences and if one is found try Latin-1. How can invalid sequences be
> > detected.
>
> To save you from writing fallback code, we could just document that table
> files should be valid utf8 files.
> There are several standalone tools and libraries that deal with encodings, so
> the table writer can simply use the external tools to verify
> his/her tables.
>
> If you are happy with this I can do the needed changes in the documentation.
>
> Thanks,
> Mesar
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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