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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: brltty and simultaneous grade 2 translation
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:13:11 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111261608300.15932-100000@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <012901c176b4$126b5760$e08caad8@tds.net>

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Dave,
> Comments are a good idea. However, any character used as a comment indicator
> will present problems, since it could be used in some language. Perhaps the
> # could indicate a comment only if it is the very first character in a line
> or of it follows the number, separated from it by a space or tab. If a
> source string has # as its first character it can be indented a space or
> two. That would mean that leading spaces on a line would be ignored.

I'd suggest supporting a dot pattern representation directly instead of 
relying on ascii correspondance which may well be different from one braille 
table to another, especially for symbols outside of the standard alphabet.


Nicolas




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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 linux, and audio cbowman
 ` philwh
   ` cbowman
 ` A. R. Vener
   ` cbowman
     ` L. C. Robinson
 ` Bill Gaughan
   ` Dave Hunt
   ` A. R. Vener
     ` Bill Gaughan
 ` Bill Gaughan
   ` Luke Davis
   ` L. C. Robinson
     ` Brent Harding
 ` brltty and simultaneous grade 2 translation Bill Gaughan
   ` Dave Mielke
     ` John J. Boyer
       ` Dave Mielke
         ` John J. Boyer
           ` Dave Mielke
             ` John J. Boyer
               ` Dave Mielke
                 ` John J. Boyer
                   ` Dave Mielke
                     ` John J. Boyer
                       ` Dave Mielke
                       ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
                         ` John J. Boyer
                           ` Nicolas Pitre
                             ` John J. Boyer
                   ` Nicolas Pitre
         ` Bill Gaughan
           ` John J. Boyer
             ` Bill Gaughan
               ` John J. Boyer
           ` Nicolas Pitre
             ` John J. Boyer
           ` Dave Mielke
         ` Nicolas Pitre
 Ian Blackburn

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