[BRLTTY] Russian braille tables and orca issue

[Alexander Epaneshnikov]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 05:09:20PM +0300, Vsevolod Popov wrote:
> 16.01.2022 14:46, Dave Mielke пишет:
> > Are there problems with brltty's Russian braille table? If so, please
> > let me know so that they can be fixed?
> I will write from my perspective, I think Aleksandr can correct me if
> something is wrong.
> As far as I understand the situation, russian brltty table has really old
> rules for punctuation symbols.

agree.

> Recently, LibLouis Russian computer braille
> table was significantly updated and the new rules of one symbolled
> punctuation were applied.

they are indeed more readable.

> For example, now, in Russian brltty table all punctuation is displayed with
> the eight's dot at the bottom. For example "." is displayed with dots 2568.
> This 8's dot is confusing, especially when reading code on a braille display
> and there are  different types of brackets, symbols like "=" or ">". The 8's
> dot makes the process of identifying the symbol longer.
> In the new LibLouis computer braille table the "." is written as dot 3, ","
> as dot 6, "!" as dot 5. All that makes separating numbers and punctuation
> symbols much easier.
> For some reason, Orca never sees any LibLouis tables that are used, it
> always switches to brltty table.

I think Dave, please correct me if this isn't the case - brltty doesn't
use an abbreviation table for brlapi clients.

> I haven't tried switching tables when the locale is set to English, though.

I tried that. this doesn't help.

> I will be glad if there are any corrections that can be made to my
> explanation to make it clearer.
> Thank you.
> --
> regards,
> Vsevolod
> https://github.com/sevapopov2/

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Sincerely, Alexander