Re: [Kde-accessibility] Gnome-braille.

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Haneman
Samuel Thibault wrote: Bill Haneman, le Thu 19 Oct 2006 00:19:04 +0100, a écrit : Sorry, following up on my own email: The unicode methods we use (we need these or their functional equivalents): (easy ones first) g_ucs4_to_utf8 g_utf8_strlen g_utf8_offset_to_pointer g_utf8_get_char

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Gnome-braille.

2006-10-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Haneman, le Thu 19 Oct 2006 10:23:40 +0100, a écrit : iconv should be fine for this Actually, I don't think so - it doesn't include offset_to_pointer That's something like: long utf8_offset_to_pointer(char *str, long offset) { iconv_t conv = iconv_open(wchar_t,utf-8);

Re: Gnome-braille.

2006-10-19 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: I think a while back we had the discussion of rolling better i18n support (e.g., a lot of the extra stuff that gnome-braille does) into BrlTTY/BrlAPI, thus simplifying the setup and use of braille. It also puts the functionality into the hands of people who are properly resourced

Re: Gnome-braille.

2006-10-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Willie Walker, le Thu 19 Oct 2006 09:03:13 -0400, a écrit : I think a while back we had the discussion of rolling better i18n support (e.g., a lot of the extra stuff that gnome-braille does) into BrlTTY/BrlAPI, thus simplifying the setup and use of braille. It also puts the functionality

Re: Gnome-braille and BrlAPI.

2006-10-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
the application to BrlTTY, and the application won't have control on how it is browsed. - In the application? Then, I don't see why it should be in BrlAPI: that can be left in an upper layer like gnome-braille. Samuel ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing

Gnome-braille.

2006-10-18 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi all I have recently found out about gnome-braille, and what it is meant to accomplish. Is there any intension of making this package desktop-agnostic, so that other desktops like XFCE and KDE may also benefit from its functionality? -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http

Re: Gnome-braille.

2006-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Luke Yelavich, le Thu 19 Oct 2006 08:40:04 +1000, a écrit : I have recently found out about gnome-braille, and what it is meant to accomplish. Is there any intension of making this package desktop-agnostic, so that other desktops like XFCE and KDE may also benefit from its

Re: Gnome-braille.

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Haneman
Samuel Thibault wrote: As discussed a few months ago, gnome-braille depends on - libgobject for contraction/language module management - libglib for tricky stuff like unicode handling. I don't have any objection to reworking this to remove GObject, but it makes no sense to do that without

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Gnome-braille.

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Haneman
Sorry, following up on my own email: The unicode methods we use (we need these or their functional equivalents): (easy ones first) g_ucs4_to_utf8 g_utf8_strlen g_utf8_offset_to_pointer g_utf8_get_char g_utf8_next_char g_unichar_to_utf8 (now the hard ones...) g_unichar_break_type

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Gnome-braille.

2006-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Haneman, le Thu 19 Oct 2006 00:19:04 +0100, a écrit : Sorry, following up on my own email: The unicode methods we use (we need these or their functional equivalents): (easy ones first) g_ucs4_to_utf8 g_utf8_strlen g_utf8_offset_to_pointer g_utf8_get_char g_utf8_next_char