Re: Gnopernicus, BRLTTY & Swedish characters

[Dave Mielke <dave mielke cc>]

[quoted lines by Bill Haneman on 2003/12/11 at 18:11 +0000]

>However locales and braille tables also map quite poorly onto one another.

Our experience is that there's no real mapping between the two at all. The
reason is that the conventions used for any given language's literary braille
tend to be unusable for computer braille since certain characters require more
than one braille cell and/or certain characters can only be represented in
certain contexts. There may be a widely accepted standard for the
representation of characters 0X20-0X7E in English braille (and that doesn't
even accommodate the extended ASCII characters), but the same isn't true for
most languages. Tjere are cases wjere two users of the same language who live
in the very same city perfer different dot mapping schemes for non-alphabetic
characters. This is why we've went the route of making it easy for a user to
define his own tables while, at the same time, providing a set of tables which
are generally accepted. In the absence of standards, that's about the best one
can do. Hopefully, as time progresses, more standards will be developed as the
preferences of the users of a given language merge.

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