Christian Egli

Backtranslation sometimes fails when multiple braille indicators map to the same dot pattern

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When multiple braille indicators map to the same dot pattern back-translation generally doesn't handle this properly. The problem is that the back translation tries to get a rule for the...

Enable xfail for only forward or backward tests

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This PR fixes #1223 The first commit moves the handling of tests for both directions to `lou_checkyaml`. That way we can check the individual results for either the forward or...

Remove the mode parameter from lou_dotsToChar

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This fixes a -Wunused-parameter warning and basically makes the API more honest, as it no longer pretend to do anything with the mode param. However is also changes the public...

Upgrade format-sources to clang-format-12

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The new LTS release of Ubuntu (22.04) no longer has `clang-format-9` which we currently use in the github action workflow. In other words I can no longer test the formatting...

Enhance xfail to specify direction

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A `bothDirection` tests is currently handled as a single unit. It either succeeds or fails as one. But in many cases only forward or backward translation fails. So we need...

begword behaves differently than word when it comes to case insensitivity

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_The comment below describes the behavior of `word`. For the behavior of `begword` see https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/507#issuecomment-368043721._ --- When we define no capitalization related opcodes, such as `capsletter` or `begcapsword`, we would...

lou_checkyaml hangs for some hyphenation tests when compiled with --disable-ucs4

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As the discussion in #519 has shown the test suite hangs when trying to run `lou_checkyaml` on the Hungarian hyphenation test (`tests/yaml/hu-hu-g1-hyph_harness.yaml`) That is probably also the reason why `hu-hu-g1-hyph_harness.yaml`...

Port to Rust

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Implementing liblouis in C has many benefits: - runs basically on any platform from desktop to embed system - enables bindings to many languages on the other hand it has...

Use Appveyor to build with the msvc tool chain

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[](https://issuehunt.io/r/liblouis/liblouis/issues/304) --- [Appveyor](https://www.appveyor.com/pricing/) apparently provides an build service free of charge for open source projects that runs the build process on a windows machine.

Change the license of the library from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1

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A lot of big corps that ship Android devices would like to pre-install liblouis and cannot do so due to obligations in the LGPLv3 to do with a) the "installation...