gnome-braille (was Re: [BRLTTY] How to programmatically do a blinking cursor and/or blinking cells?)

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le Mon 11 Dec 2006 19:33:23 +0100, a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Willie Walker, le Mon 11 Dec 2006 10:11:23 -0500, a écrit :
> > Gnome-braille is definitely a good thing to talk about.  At some point
> > soon, we want to make sure we have the following in Orca:
> > 
> > 1) Good support for multiple locales
> > 2) Good support for Grade 2 braille
> > 
> > For both of these, we'd really like to be able to just toss UTF-8 text
> > and have it display the right thing.  In addition, we'd like
> > to determine UTF-8 character offset from cursor routing keys versus the
> > Grade 2 braille cell offset.
> > 
> > Does gnome-braille provide this for us?
> >
> > Are things like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese supported?
> 
> Yes to all of this!  Gnome-braille was precisely written for this
> purpose.  Dave, has Bill subscribed to brltty at mielke.cc? (he may want to
> speak about this)

More precisely, gnome-braille has tables for american, arabic,
bharati-devanagari, british, croatian, czech, danish, german, french,
grade2 english, italian, kanas, magyar-teljes, polish, russian,
spanish, svenska, vietnamese, and a kakasi engine.  Bill says that
gnome-braille's model permits to easily write new translation
modules.  He is willing to develop gnome-braille more, free it from its
glib/gmodule dependency, and even rename it in case it looks too much
gnome-centric.

Samuel