[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 15:18:00 -0500
Hi Vic,
As you can see from my last message, we should not be using UTF-8 in
opcode arguments, because the tables should be human-readable. Your own
troubles show why.
Unless there is a consensus that UTF-8 is really needed we should stick
to the \xhhhh notation. So far, only one person wants it.
John
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 03:24:46PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> Mesar,
>
> OK, I think I understand now. Part of the problem is that I was using Nano
> and it must not support UTF-8. One problem, though, when I check the
> trademark symbol with Window-Eyes and NVDA they tell me it is Unicode 99 or
> ox99. Why is this different than the \x2132 you mentioned?
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
>
> Vic
> E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
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> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last
> batch of files converted to utf-8.
>
> Hi Vic,
>
> On Tue 03/07/12,12:16, Vic Beckley wrote:
> > So in my example of the trademark symbol, which shows up as a^ in UTF-8,
>
> No, it should not show up as a followed by a caret symbol, it should simply
> be the trademark symbol itself.
> open the file with notepad plus plus,.
>
>
> > how
> > would you correctly write this using the \xhhhh format? If you were
> writing
> > the table and wanted to define this symbol using UTF-8,
> > how would you find out what it was.
>
> Just a small correction, \xhhhh or sometimes also written as u+hhhh is
> called the unicode code point of the symbol.
> then how this is stored on the computer, is called the encoding.
>
> so utf7, utf8, utf16 and utf32 are all different computer formats for
> encoding unicode, and are related to how many bytes
> are used for the minimal representation of each codepoint.
> For a more detailed explenation, please have a look on wikipedia, both at
> "unicode", "utf8" etc.
>
> So to your question:
> if you use a screenreader, your screenreader probably has a shortcut key for
> telling you the codepoint of the character your cursor is
> currently standing on.
>
> For nvda and orca, in desktop layout, this is the numpad 2, pressed three
> quick times.
> for example orca is telling me trademark, 2122
> If you are using a braille display and the character is not defined in your
> current table, you will see \x2122
>
> If you were a sighted table writer, you probably have to go to the online
> unicode standard, and look in the long list of characters for the
> \xhhhh representation for the character you wanted.
>
> hope this helps,
> Mesar
> 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
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project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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