[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last batch of files converted to utf-8.
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:08:45 -0700
Hello Mesar, on behalf of the BrailleBlaster steering committee, I
understand and appreciate your concern about UTF8. Clearly we should have
started that way.
I have a suggestion for how to settle this issue. First of all, let's make
the tables work with liblouis today. My suggestion is to put everything
beyond 127 into the /x notation. At some later time, I would very much like
to convert to using UTF8. Vic Beckley has begun working part-time for
ViewPlus on liblouis items specific to the company, and he is presently
waiting on us to give him a new list of things to do. In the meantime, I
have asked him to work with you to do this improvement.
Okay with all concerned? Thanks!!!
John Gardner
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[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mesar Hameed
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 9:53 AM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last
batch of files converted to utf-8.
128 to 255 is the range for codepages, which is now depricated due to its
inherent problems.
For example we cant write german+russian texts, or swedish+greek etc.
unicode will make sure that we will be able to support all combinations of
languages at once.
I believe that it can be done, but in a round about and error prone way.
Thanks,
Mesar
On Mon 02/07/12,10:16, John J. Boyer wrote:
> My mistake. I meant to say 0 to 255.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:10:03PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > On Mon 02/07/12,09:52, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > UTF-8 in the opcode arguments would be a bad idea. Since the
> > > beginning, the character argument has accepted characters from 0 to
127 as valid.
> > > UTF-8 conflicts with this.
> >
> > According to the standard 0 to 127 is exactly the same for ascii and for
utf-8, so this is not a conflict.
> >
> > Wikipedia reitterates this:
> >
> > "The first 128 characters of Unicode, which correspond one-to-one
> > with ASCII, are encoded using a single octet with the same binary value
as ASCII, making valid ASCII text valid UTF-8-encoded Unicode as well."
> >
> > from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
> >
> > I could dig up a more reputable source if its required.
> >
> > 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
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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