[BRLTTY] existing and not existing braille-tables, what are the righ ones?

[Labrador]

Hi Dave:

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:29:02AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Labrador on 2009/03/17 at 11:05 +0100]
> 
> >there is still a big problem with the names for the braille-tables:
> >while Debian Lenny and Ubuntu / Vinux are both using brltty 3.10 debs,
> >the list of braille-tables names are sounding different:
> 
> I can't speak for any of those distributions. What I can tell you is that a few 
> of the text table names have changed between 3.10 and 4.0 because the old names 
> were confusing and meaningless.
> 
> >I was talking about no (Norsk), and see now two things:
> >no-h and no-p on one side,
> 
> Those are 3.10 names.
> 
> >and 
> >no-generic and no-oub on the other side.
> 
> Those are 4.0 names.

OK; this means that the current template provided on Debian Lenny is the
wrong one. So trying to pass such cheatcodes at boot: will fail. 
( cf. /usr/share/doc/brltty/examples/ ) 

> >Can someone here in this room teel me what is what and what is correct and
> >what isn't ? 
> 
> You're comparing a list of 3.10 names with a lsit of 4.0 names. Doing that
> will 
> lead to the kinds of problems you're having. While there have only been 
>a few 
> renames, 4.0 also has a lot of new text tables in it as well (which you 
>won't 
> find at all in the 3.10 list).

OK, that the resolves partly my problem: I was looking for the right
text-table names for Vinux and Debian, and both uses 3.10; I know now that
for "no", the "no-h" & "no-p" are correct.

Thanx a lot for your patience and clearing up my mind.

Labrad0r

PS: IMHO it's a bad idea to give such a long names to text-tables, how
shorter how better.
BTW if no-generic is really generic, then "no" would be good enough; idem
for other languages no matter whichone.
I repeat, its much more blindfriendlier for the "boot:" moment on CDs/DVDs;
btw due to the qwerty keyboard, not all people are able to pass such very
long entries.
If continuing in this way, one day I'm afraid to have to enter at boot:
brltty=albatrossdisplay,USB:,french_from_France

Keep it as short as possible, and keep standard without any - or _.
IMHO:
en_US was standard, so en should be the standard, not en_US,
same for other languages. There is always a standard in each language!