[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: questions regarding Tamil braille table

  • From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:17:07 +0000

Dear Christian,

Might you have some time to look at the questions posed below?
We didn't get a reply from the list.

Thanks.

On Sat 04/02/12,08:20, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I am helping Dinakar to update/correct the tamil table.
> 
> issue 1:
> I wanted to test our modifications, so updated my 
> ta.ctb and tamil.cti in /usr/share/liblouis/tables
> 
> Only to find that the display is filled with question marks and dots.
> 
> Reverted to the ta.ctb and tamil.cti from svn and the issue is still the 
> same. lou_checktable does not show any errors. I presume that it is 
> because the english symbols have not been declared, but on the other 
> hand ta.ctb includes text_nabbc.dis.
> 
> Is anyone able to reproduce this? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
> 
> 
> issue 2:
> I know this issue was discussed previously, but unable to locate the 
> thread, so appologies.
> 
> Tamil has a dot which can be put ontop of given letters, in unicode this 
> comes after the letter, but in braille it should come before.
> example:
> \x0b95\x0bcd 4-13
> here 13 is for the first unicode char, and 4 for the  second one.
> Elsewhere we already have declarations for 
> \x0b95 13
> and:
> \x0bcd 4
> 
> but they will be displayed in the wrong order.
> Can swapcc be used without having to declare the dots for each 
> combination?
> 
> 
> Please reply to all.
> 
> Thanks.
> Mesar
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