[BRLTTY] Re: Final release of brltty 3.8?

[Bill Haneman]

Hi Folks;

Regarding the snippets below about gnome-braille, braille i18n (for the 
general case),  contraction/grade2, etc. I would like to mention that I 
am available to start removing glib dependencies from the gnome-braille 
codebase immediately, if there is consensus that the resulting code 
would be meet these needs.  I plan to start this work soon, just say the 
word :-)

I won't have a huge amount of time but will have a few hours per week, 
hopefully it won't take a long time.

best regards,

Bill
>>> As already discussed, that should probably be handled by something like
>>> gnome-braille.
>>>       
>> I keep getting confused about the discussion and need to better 
>> understand where the support starts and ends in BrlTTY/BrlAPI.
>>     
>
> BrlAPI is a low-level way to access braille devices.  Contraction seems
> to me too advanced to put here.
>
>   
>> ...
>>
>> 2) Orca would use a separate package, such as gnome-braille, to convert 
>> UTF-8 strings to a set of cells/dots and also for mapping a given cell 
>> to a character in a string.  As such, all communication between from 
>> Orca to BrlAPI would be at the raw "put these dots in these cells" level 
>> instead of "display this string and put the cursor here" higher level as 
>> we do now.
>>
>> With this, Orca and the separate package would be in complete control of 
>> allowing for things such rapid switching between contracted/uncontracted 
>> braille and for handling multiple locales.
>>     
>
> That's what we end up with as a solution, yes.
>