[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Updated version of tables, still a few questions

  • From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:26:10 +0200

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> 3.       The codes #128 to #160 still puzzle me in the 8-dot table. I left in
>> the original, commented out, parts. I follow the Windows 1252 standard and I 
>> am
>> wondering if the author followed a different one, but up to symbol 127 and
>> after symbol 160 my version and his match on all codes, so this is a bit 
>> weird.
>
> What do you mean by "author"? Liblouis uses unicode, where 128-159 are
> control characters. cp1252's 128-159 translations should be assigned to
> the corresponding unicode characters.

He is probably referring to Christian Waldvogel, the author of the
de-chardefs8.cti table on which he is apparently basing his work on. It
will be another two weeks before he returns from his holiday.

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Christian Egli
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