Hi Ikrami,
This feature has been requested a few times before. Our idea is to do it as
explained in this Github issue:
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/702.
Op ma 30 mrt. 2020 om 13:35 schreef <ikrami.ahmad@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi
I don’t know if this feature already exist in Liblouis, but I did not find
anything related to it in the manual. I hope that it is considered anyway
for its importance.
It is a braille sign to mark the start and the end of foreign language
context. For example, if I am reading an Arabic text, and there is an
English word in the middle of this text, we have a certain mark we put to
indicate the start and the end of this English context. If we say that this
mark is dots 456 in the grade1 braile, you can see this example:
عربي English عربي
Should be translated like this:
⠷⠗⠃⠊⠀⠸⠑⠝⠛⠇⠊⠎⠓⠸⠀⠷⠗⠃⠊
This tells the reader that what is between dots 456 is not Arabic
characters, yet they are latin characters.
I think an opcode like “latChar” from latin characters can be used for
this. It works in a similar way like the emphasis opcodes, but I am not
sure if it can be implemented, and how it can work in back translation.
Waiting for your invaluable input.
Thanks
