[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Unicode encoding of tables
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:21:29 -0500
Yes. That is what I mean. I wanted to be sure there was no confusion.
John
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:30:04PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> No there is no mistake.
>
> Statements for liblouis processing should use escape sequences.
> Comments and peoples names should be written in a natural language, so no
> escape sequences, hence the need for the file to be encoded as utf-8, so that
> everyone can read them.
>
> Mesar
>
> On Fri 08/06/12,08:24, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > I think there is some confusion of terms here. We seem to be saying
> > UTF-8 when we mean escape sequences.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:15:55PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> > > On Fri 08/06/12,14:01, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > > I believe it might be that the encoding of the file should be UTF-8.
> > > > Therefore if it is encoded using something like latin1 and contains a
> > > > character above 128 it will need to be re-encoded into UTF-8.
> > >
> > > Yes, exactly.
> > >
> > > > May be I have got it wrong, using escape sequences have the advantage
> > > > they can be typed easily regardless of keyboard layout, but they can
> > > > make it harder to read (I am split on that one as to which I prefer).
> > >
> > > liblouis commands should all be in ascii at the moment, so those beyond
> > > 127 should be represented with \xABCD.
> > > The file itself should be utf-8 encoded, so that names, comments etc can
> > > be written in a natural way.
> > > These two statements are distinctly different and we need to make sure
> > > table writers dont confuse the matter, which seems to have happend with
> > > the broken tables.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mesar
> > > For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> > > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >
> > --
> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> > Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
> > Developing software for people with disabilities
> >
> > 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
--
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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