[BRLTTY] [SPAM] A strange Unicode translation

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2012/07/01 at 15:18 -0400]

>I have a book that contains the word "protege". The two e's are
>accented. 

That'd be the word "protégé".

>It's a lynx dump of an xml file, and in the lynx output these e's show up as 
>dots 1268 (hex E9).

Which is a lowercase e with an acute accent. Being as it's a French word, the 
correct braille representation should be dots 123456 (with dot 8 added to show 
that it's not English). That's what the en_CA text table does. You don't say 
which table you're using, but I guess it wasn't designed with French support in 
mind. Maybe that's the correct representation for a Spanish lowercase e with an 
acute accent - I don't know Spanish braille.

>When I turn grade 2 on with the built-in brltty translator they come out 
>properly as dots 4-15. But when I translate it into grade 2 using the command:
>
>brltty-ctb -rw40 -tbrf
>
>each e comes out as the eight-character sequence:
>
>comma
>comma
>grave
>a
>7
>comma
>c
>7
>
>That is:
>
>,,`a7,c7

I'm unable to reproduce this so far.

>I think the problem lies in Tables/brf.ttb but since this file makes
>no provision for a one -> two character translation I don't think this
>can be fixed with this table. 

No, that's not possible. The text table is only used by brltty-ctb in order to 
decide which character is to be writtten for each dot pattern.

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