[BRLTTY] Braille in CLDR

[Jason White]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:41:44AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
 
> Any braille producer (brltty, gnome-braille, gnopernicus, libbraille,
> sbl, ...) would be able to produce localized braille without asking the
> user to care about tables.
This is good, as long as the user can as always create a custom table as
desired. Would you envisage a central database, installed on the user's
system, containing the standard tables?
> 
> People might be reduced to choose his screenreader according to the
> braille table it has; that's a bit unfortunate...
Agreed.
> 
> > How would it relate to the work of the various braille standards
> > bodies around the world?
> 
> CLDR would be the priviledged contact of such bodies.  For now, screen
> reader implementors gather information from here and there without so
> much success.  CLDR people, on the contrary, are used to collecting such
> data.
I suspect it will be more a matter of setting standards than collecting data,
as conventional braille standards bodies generally haven't defined 8-dot
systems, and for some languages it is likely that even six-dot "computer"
braille codes don't exist or haven't been standardized. Of course, one could
simply collect all of the alternatives in widespread use, to the extent that
there are different tables for the same language/country combination.