[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last batch of files converted to utf-8.
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:17:08 -0500
I feel that it is important that the tables should be human-readable and
editable with simple text editors. This is not the case if either UTF-8
or Latin-1 is used. That is why I think we should use the \xhhhh
notation for all characters above 127. I don't care that it doesn['t
look pretty. It makes things easier for people who have to maintain
tables after the original author is finished with them. Moreover, why
should European languages be favored in terms of ease of entering
characters? Non-Eupopean languages must use the \xhhhh notation anyway.
Finally, I don't think it is a good idea to suddenly change a way of
writing tables that has been used from the beginning.
John
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 04:21:01PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Tue 03/07/12,10:05, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > If UTF8 is allowed in the character argument of opcodes, no characters
> > above 127 can be used. This would invalidate any tables using Latin-1.
>
> Yes, they are already been converted to utf8, i.e. no byte uses values above
> 127 as per the unicode standard.
> If they need to represent aumlouts greek symbols etc, they are correctly
> encoded using utf8.
>
> > People would not be able to simply type letters on their keyboards.
>
> Sorry i think you are mixing computer representation, with human readable
> representation.
> The point of utf8 is:
> * for everyone to be able to use their keyboards, and directly see on the
> screen what characters they have typed.
> * their text independant of location of the reader, is exactly what the
> author wrote.
>
> I can quite happely write swedish text and send it to you, and you can
> receive it perfectly fine, as long as the file is utf8 encoded.
> If i send it as latin1, I am presuming that you will open it in latin1, and
> if you dont then you will not be able to read the content correctly.
>
> To reiterate, At this moment in time, no tables are using values above 127,
> but they are displaying correctly for everyone, because they use utf8.
> so we wish opcodes to accept utf8 operands.
> Of course, when it comes to sending for printing, these values are correctly
> mapped using the dis files to fall in within the characters that
> the hardware accepts.
>
> Mesar
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> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
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