[BRLTTY] Russian and Hebrew with BRLTTY

Ollie mallard at ilgerone.net
Sat Dec 13 10:34:13 EST 2008


Thanks Dave,
That's very clear.
I can certainly provide information for the creation of a Hebrew table.
It would be great to have one!
Take care,
Ollie



At 16.25 13/12/2008, you wrote:
>[quoted lines by Ollie on 2008/12/13 at 15:57 +0100]
>
> >I need to read a lot in Russian and Hebrew. I'm not
> >interested in speech so much as in braille.
> >Is it possible to read Russian and Hebrew with BRLTTY?
>
>We already have a Russian text table. It's called "ru". You can select it in
>one of three ways:
>
>First: You can invoke brltty with the -tru (or --text-table=ru) command line
>option.
>
>Second: You can specify the following line within "/etc/brltty.conf":
>
>    text-table ru
>
>Third: You can go into brltty's preferences menu (the exact key combination
>depends on what kind of braille display you're using), find the "Text Table"
>selector, and choose "ru".
>
>Regarding Hebrew braille: We don't have a text table for Hebrew braille yet,
>but we'd like to create one. Would you be able to post a message with a
>description of which dot combinations are used for which characters? 
>If you can
>then we'll create the table for you.
>
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