[BRLTTY] Loading several braille tables

Shérab Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Fri Aug 31 10:54:31 EDT 2012


Dave Mielke (2012/08/31 10:29 -0400):
> >How about the exaple I gave of a person usingmainly a western language
> >such as english or french but also, somtimes, another alnguage using
> >another alphabet ?
> 
> I think most (maybe all) already do include the Latin letters anyway.

I'm not sure whatyour "most (maybe all)" refers to.
Do you talk about tables for non-latin alphabets ?

> What they tend to do, though, is something like add dot 8 to the Latin letters. That's 
> something which helps the user but wouldn't be done by a simple table
> merge. 

These two sentences I could absolutely not understand, sorry.

> Also, even if the Latin letters weren't shared between two tables, some 
> punctuation most likely would be shared but different.

Well, I wouldn't mind, if there was a documented way of handling this,
such as the first or last table loaded takes precedence. And there could
even be warnings in the logs for symbols with conflicting
representations...

Sherab.


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