Re: [orca-list] problems with orca and contracted braille

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Rynhardt.

Thanks for the report. I'll take a look.
--joanie

On 05/05/2016 09:29 AM, Rynhardt Kruger wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> When using Orca with contracted braille turned on, I experiance the
> following problems:
>
> * Only the first character of a line is brailled, and
> * in edit fields, only the first character of a line is announsed when
> moving by character.
>
> In addition, Orca produces the following output when run from a terminal
> (with some variation depending on the contents of the current line):
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/orca/generator.py", line 229,
> in generate
>     result = eval(formatting, globalsDict)
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/orca/braille.py", line 430, in
> __init__
>     Region.__init__(self, string, cursorOffset, expandOnCursor)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/orca/braille.py", line 297, in
> __init__
>     cursorOffset, expandOnCursor)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/orca/braille.py", line 366, in
> contractLine
>     mode=mode)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/louis/__init__.py", line 146,
> in translate
>     return outbuf.value, inPos[:outlen.value], outPos[:inlen.value],
> cursorPos.value
> ValueError: character U+72003b is not in range [U+0000; U+10ffff]
>
> This is with the latest Orca from master, and the latest liblouis git,
> running on Archlinux. None of these problems accur when contracted
> braille is turned off.
>
> Any ideas? From playing with the liblouis API it seams that liblouis is
> returning garbitch to Orca. However, the liblouis lou_translate program
> seams to work fine.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rynhardt
>
>
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