[BRLTTY] Re: Speech enhancements

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri Mar 17 04:42:43 EST 2006


Hi,

Dave Mielke, le Fri 17 Mar 2006 03:01:46 -0500, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Jason White on 2006/03/17 at 18:11 +1100]
> 
> >Perhaps the word identification function should be accessed via a pointer that
> >can be updated depending on the language of the input.
> 
> At the very least, the initial code, which, for expediency, might as well be
> something simple, should be encapsulated in a function.  That'd make it easy to
> change when future generalizations are adequately understood.

Well, ideally enough, such function should be provided by _libc_
itself...

>From reading the grep source code about word separation, it seems
that they just look for contiguity of the isalnum() property of
characters. This is an idea of an easy fully-localized first
implementation for brltty.

The issue of developing better word separation should be developped in
libc, not in brltty.

Regards,
Samuel


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