Re: [orca-list] Is it really no solution for Chinese braille?

[Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>]

hi,

Willie Walker, le Mon 18 Jun 2007 08:53:35 -0400, a écrit :
> Right now, Orca merely passes UTF-8 strings to BrlAPI and lets BrlAPI
> take care of the rest.  I think BrlTTY supports the Chinese big5
> character set, but perhaps not UTF-8.

That's the converse :)

BrlAPI supports UTF-8 and stores unicode characters. But BrlTTY doesn't
have unicode support yet. Now that 3.8 is out, this will be worked upon,
though.

That said, in the case of chinese, the translation is not 1:1, and thus
the translation should happen at the client level, by making orca use
gnome-braille or liblouis and directly send dots to brltty.

Samuel