[BRLTTY] Re: Speech enhancements
Yannick PLASSIARD
yan at mistigri.org
Fri Mar 17 05:40:20 EST 2006
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:42:43AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dave Mielke, le Fri 17 Mar 2006 03:01:46 -0500, a écrit :
> > [quoted lines by Jason White on 2006/03/17 at 18:11 +1100]
> >
> > >Perhaps the word identification function should be accessed via a pointer that
> > >can be updated depending on the language of the input.
> >
> > At the very least, the initial code, which, for expediency, might as well be
> > something simple, should be encapsulated in a function. That'd make it easy to
> > change when future generalizations are adequately understood.
>
> Well, ideally enough, such function should be provided by _libc_
> itself...
>
> >From reading the grep source code about word separation, it seems
> that they just look for contiguity of the isalnum() property of
> characters. This is an idea of an easy fully-localized first
> implementation for brltty.
>
> The issue of developing better word separation should be developped in
> libc, not in brltty.
I aggree with Samuel , it depends on the locale and for that, it would be done in conjunction with the locale into the GNU C library. To let us play with "echo by word" features, it seems to be approved to do a "basic word separation" (with blanks (spaces tabs ...)), and see users' feedbacks.
>
> Regards,
> Samuel
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