| liblouis 3.23.0 has been released |
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| The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release |
| 3.23.0. The release is available for download at: |
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| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases |
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| Introduction |
| ============ |
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| Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It |
| features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports |
| contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages [1]_. |
| It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and is |
| used by screenreaders such as NVDA, Orca and JAWS. A companion project |
| liblouisutdml [2]_ deals with formatting of braille. |
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| Noteworthy changes in this release |
| ================================== |
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| This release contains significant updates to many existing braille |
| tables (Chinese bopomofo, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, Swedish, UEB |
| grade 2 Ukrainian). On top of that it also contains new tables for |
| *Chinese Common Braille Scheme*, Kinyarwanda and Luganda thanks to |
| Cary-Rowen and Jake Kyle. Behind the scenes Samuel Thibault has been |
| working tirelessly to fix memory related bugs. |
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| I'd like to thank everybody for helping to bring liblouis forward. |
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| For a detailed list of all the changes refer to the list of closed |
| issues [3]_. |
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| New features |
| ------------ |
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| - None |
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| Bug fixes |
| --------- |
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| - Fix a problem in the parsing of faulty unbalanced context |
| expressions. Thanks to Samuel Thibault. |
| - Fix a buffer overflow problem when ``output.length`` is larger than |
| ``input.length``. Thanks to Samuel Thibault. |
| - Fix an endless loop in the handling of computer braille. Thanks to |
| Bert Frees. |
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| Braille table improvements |
| -------------------------- |
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| - Remove computer braille from Japanese Kantenji as it is not part of |
| the standard. Thanks to Kensaku Yoza. |
| - Bring Swedish tables up to date with the latest standard published by |
| Punktskriftsnämnden (the Swedish Braille Authority) in 2009. The |
| table for uncontracted braille was replaced and new tables for |
| (partially and fully) contracted braille have been added. Thanks to |
| David Renström from Insyn Scandinavia AB. |
| - Improvements to Hungarian (added more exceptions) and migration to |
| the ``nonumsign`` opcode thanks to Attila Hammer. |
| - Fixed a bug in the Ukrainian table that led to wrong translation of |
| some uppercase letters. Thanks to Andrey Yakuboy and Bert Frees. |
| - Augment the UEB grade 2 tables to resolve an ambiguity between lower |
| groupsigns and punctuation at the beginning of words by placing a |
| letter sign at the front of punctuation. This resolves an ambiguity |
| between, for example, "discount" and ".count". Thanks to Krzysztof |
| Drewniak. |
| - Add a new table for *Chinese Common Braille Scheme* which is a type |
| of braille used for spelling Mandarin Chinese. It is a variant of the |
| *Chinese Current Braille System* but has more perfect marking rules |
| and produces less ambiguity than the latter. For more information see |
| the comments in ``zhcn-cbs.ctb``. Thanks to Cary-Rowen and Frank. |
| - Updates to the Chinese bopomofo braille table thanks to Bo-Cheng |
| Jhan: |
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| - Update braille patterns of some Chinese characters and phrases |
| - Add braille patterns for various Greek symbols |
| - Add "Math rules" section and the mixed number rule |
| - Add braille patterns for ☐ (⣏⣀⣹), ☑ (⣏⣿⣹), and ☒ (⣏⣭⣹) |
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| - New table for Kinyarwanda braille thanks to Jake Kyle from Compass |
| Braille. |
| - New table for Luganda braille thanks to Jake Kyle from Compass |
| Braille. |
| - Improvements to the Russian contracted braille table thanks to Andrey |
| Yakuboy: |
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| - Now prefixes "из" and "без" are correctly contracted before hard |
| sign (ъ). |
| - Fixed a contraction for word "кое-где", now it is contracted |
| according to rules. |
| - Other minor fixes and improvements. |
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| Other changes |
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| - None |
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| Deprecation notice |
| ------------------ |
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| - None |
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| Backwards incompatible changes |
| ------------------------------ |
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| - None |
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| Invisible changes |
| ----------------- |
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| - None |
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| New, renamed or removed tables |
| ------------------------------ |
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| New |
| ~~~ |
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| - zhcn-cbs.ctb |
| - lg-ug-g1.utb |
| - rw-rw-g1.utb |
| - sv-g0.utb |
| - sv-g1.ctb |
| - sv-g2.ctb |
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| Renamed |
| ~~~~~~~ |
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| None |
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| Removed |
| ~~~~~~~ |
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| - Se-Se-g1.utb |
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| Next release |
| ============ |
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| The next release will be published on December 5 2022 so please keep up |
| the excellent work and keep those improvements coming. |
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| Share and Enjoy! |
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| – Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers |
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| Footnotes |
| ========= |
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| .. [1] |
| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables |
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| .. [2] |
| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml |
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| .. [3] |
| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/33?closed=1 |
