[BRLTTY] Text table syntax change.

高生旺 coscell at mail.batol.net
Sat Aug 9 03:26:08 EDT 2008


Why do not support multi-cells braille output for fitting Asian language.

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:

> Text tables now support both local and Unicode characters. A character in the 
> local character set is defined via the "byte" directive, and a Unicode 
> character is defined via the "char" directive. For convenience, the "byte" 
> keyword has been optional until now. With the introduction of Unicode character 
> support, starting off a character definition line with the character value, 
> i.e. with no keyword identifying the action to be taken, has become ambiguous 
> so that shortcut is no longer recognized. For example:
> 
>    \x61 (1) # This syntax is no longer supported.
>    byte \x61 (1) # This defines a character in the local character set.
>    char \x61 (1) # This defines a Unicode character.
> 
> This change is effective as of revision 3845. All of BRLTTY's text tables have 
> been converted. Your personal text tables, however, may need to be updated.
> 
> 


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