[BRLTTY] cursor position issue about "en-us-g1.ctb" table

[Dongyu]

Ok, i got what you said about the input range. And i made a mistake from
beginning, please ignore the previous email reply.
Thank you!


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Dongyu <lidongyu08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you mean the end position of a string is out of the string range?
> If so, for most common situation when inputting in an textarea, the cursor
> is at the end of current content. So, lou_translate will not return the
> right cursor position.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
>
>> [quoted lines by Dongyu on 2014/03/06 at 11:19 -0600]
>>
>> >I found a cursor position issue when using "en-us-g1.ctb" table.
>> >
>> >there are 3 examples:
>> >apple
>> >Apple
>> >APPle
>> >
>> >the outbuf and outlen of them are different when using lou_translate.
>> >but, if I assign cursor position equal to 5, after lou_translate, the
>> >cursor position is still 5 for all of them. As I think, the cursor
>> position
>> >for the 3 examples should be 5, 6 and 9, right?
>> >Because if assigning the cursor position as 4, after lou_translate, the
>> >positions of 3 example are 4, 5 and 8.
>> >
>> >I found this issue only happened when the cursor position is the end of
>> >input buffer. How to solve this issue, changing the table?
>>
>> No, it's not a table issue. The problem is that the cursor is out of
>> range when
>> not actually on an input character. With it being out of range, there's no
>> logical place to put it. Perhaps, when this happens, the cursor should be
>> disabled. Is there really a need to support the placement of an out of
>> range
>> cursor?
>>
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