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 liblouis 3.11.0 has been released

 The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release
 3.11.0. The release is available for download at:

 https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases

 Introduction
 ============

 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.

 Noteworthy changes in this release
 ==================================

 A tremendous amount of work by Dave Mielke and Bert Frees has gone into
 this release. They have improved liblouis for use on note taker devices,
 for backwards translation and a number of languages. Many other
 contributors (listed below) have also helped in fixing bugs and
 improving braille tables, such as Dutch, Mongolian, Polish, Ancient
 Greek, Danish, Irish, Chinese, and American Braille Computer Code.

 For a detailed list of all the changes refer to the list of closed
 issues [3]_.

 New features
 ------------

 -  Enable ``always`` rules with a single character and a single braille
    cell for back-translation. Thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen.
 -  Implement ``noUndefined`` mode for forward translation, thanks to
    Dave Mielke.
 -  Use fallback braille representations (NABCC) for rendering undefined
    characters in hexadecimal notation, thanks to Dave Mielke.
 -  Always render undefined characters, also ASCII characters, in
    hexadecimal notation.
 -  Add a new metadata field ``index-name`` for selecting a table from a
    list fast and efficiently. It has the most important information
    first and no redundant information. It should look nice when sorted.
    This in contrast to the existing ``display-name`` field which is for
    describing a table accurately and should sound good. Thanks to Dave
    Mielke and Bert Frees.

 Bug fixes
 ---------

 -  Don't let a caps passage end on a word with no letters. Thanks to
    Bert Frees.
 -  Handle word resets in the last word of an caps or emphasis passage if
    the end indicator was placed before the word. Thanks to Bert Frees.
 -  Never convert to lowercase if ``capsletter`` is not defined. Thanks
    to Bert Frees.
 -  Fix position mapping for back-translation when ``noUndefined`` mode
    is active. Thanks to Dave Mielke.
 -  Fix bug where a translation would hang on words that match both a
    ``nocont`` and a ``repeated`` rule. Thanks to Dave Mielke.
 -  Fix bug where the effect of ``capsnocont`` would leak to the next
    word if that word starts with a capital. Thanks to Bue
    Vester-Andersen.

 Braille table improvements
 --------------------------

 -  Fix an issue with ordinal numbers inside caps passages in Dutch
    braille. Thanks to Bert Frees.
 -  Improved back-translation for Mongolian thanks to Angaragerdene.
 -  Fixes to Polish grade 1 and Polish computer braille thanks to Łukasz
    Golonka.
 -  Improvements to Ancient Greek braille, which has been renamed
    &quot;Greek international braille&quot;. A version with composed
    accents is made available as a .uti table. Thanks to Dave Mielke and
    Μαρια Γεωργακαράκου (Maria Georgakarakou).
 -  Various improvements to modern Greek thanks to Dave Mielke.
 -  Improvements and fixes to Spanish contracted braille. Details in
    #741. Thanks to Juan Pablo Bello.
 -  Improvements and fixes to the Danish tables. Thanks to Bue
    Vester-Andersen.
 -  Add a display table to match Word CX which is used in Norway and
    Sweden, and maybe also in other countries thanks to Lars Bjørndal.
 -  Fix handling of colon within number in Dutch braille, thanks to Jake
    Kyle.
 -  Fix translation of bullet and dot operators in Dutch braille, thanks
    to Paul Rambags
 -  Added North American Braille Computer Code table (``en-nabcc.utb``)
    which is the counterpart of the ``text_nabcc.dis`` display table.
    Thanks to Dave Mielke.
 -  Add support for the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to the
    Chinese bopomofo braille table, thanks to Hurt Huang and Sponge Jhan.
    Various improvements, including dot patterns and test cases, to the
    Chinese bopomofo braille table, thanks to Sponge Jhan.
 -  Unified English Braille no longer displays a single underscore when
    multiple underscores are in the text, thanks to André-Abush Clause.
 -  Update to Afrikaans uncontracted braille and new table for contracted
    braille. Thanks to Christo de Klerk and Greg Kearney.
 -  Update Irish braille (contracted and uncontracted) to the May 2019
    version of the specification, thanks to Ronan McGuirk

 Other changes
 -------------

 -  The python wrapper now encodes and decodes strings to/from UTF-16 and
    UTF-32 using the surrogatepass error handler. This ensures that
    single UTF-16 surrogate characters are processed correctly by the
    wrapper and don't raise an encoding/decoding error. Thanks to Leonard
    de Ruijter.
 -  Metadata keys and values are now case insensitive, thanks to Dave
    Mielke.
 -  Remove ``unicodedefs.cti``. It was obsolete and never meant to be
    included by any tables. Instead use the online references as
    mentioned in the documentation now. See also #696.
 -  ``lou_checkyaml`` test reporting has been improved, thanks to Bert
    Frees. For example it now has a ``--verbose`` option so that printing
    of expected failures can be enabled.
 -  Hyphenation tables have been removed from tables except those needed
    for ``nocross`` rules, thanks to Bert Frees.

    The idea is that the caller (for example ``odt2braille`` or
    ``liblouisutdml``) should be able to decide for themselves which
    hyphenation table to use. The case in which a table contains nocross
    rules is an exception. In this case the hyphenation patterns are a
    real part of the table. Because it is not recommended to append an
    own hyphenation table in this case, a ``#-has-nocross`` metadata
    field was added to indicate that a table contains nocross rules.
 -  ``lou_hyphenate`` can now handle more than just words (sequences of
    letters), e.g compound words, thanks to Bert Frees.

 Deprecation notice
 ------------------

 -  The ``noUndefinedDots`` mode has been renamed to ``noUndefined``. For
    backwards compatibility ``noUndefinedDots`` is still available in the
    header file and in the Python bindings, as an alias for
    ``noUndefined``.

 Backwards incompatible changes
 ------------------------------

 None

 Invisible changes
 -----------------

 -  Internally separate more clearly the display and translation phases.

 New, renamed or removed tables
 ------------------------------

 New
 ~~~

 -  grc-international-common.uti
 -  grc-international-composed.uti
 -  grc-international-decomposed.uti
 -  en-nabcc.utb

 Renamed
 ~~~~~~~

 -  gr-bb.ctb -&gt; grc-international-en.utb

 Removed
 ~~~~~~~

 -  unicodedefs.cti
 -  fi-fi.ctb

 Next release
 ============

 The next release will be published on December 2 2019 so please keep up
 the excellent work and keep those improvements coming.

 Share and Enjoy!

 – Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers

 Footnotes
 =========

 .. [1]
    https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables

 .. [2]
    https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml

 .. [3]
    https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/21?closed=1
	liblouis 3.11.0 has been released

	The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release
	3.11.0. The release is available for download at:

	https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases

	Introduction
	============

	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.

	Noteworthy changes in this release
	==================================

	A tremendous amount of work by Dave Mielke and Bert Frees has gone into
	this release. They have improved liblouis for use on note taker devices,
	for backwards translation and a number of languages. Many other
	contributors (listed below) have also helped in fixing bugs and
	improving braille tables, such as Dutch, Mongolian, Polish, Ancient
	Greek, Danish, Irish, Chinese, and American Braille Computer Code.

	For a detailed list of all the changes refer to the list of closed
	issues [3]_.

	New features
	------------

	- Enable ``always`` rules with a single character and a single braille
	cell for back-translation. Thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen.
	- Implement ``noUndefined`` mode for forward translation, thanks to
	Dave Mielke.
	- Use fallback braille representations (NABCC) for rendering undefined
	characters in hexadecimal notation, thanks to Dave Mielke.
	- Always render undefined characters, also ASCII characters, in
	hexadecimal notation.
	- Add a new metadata field ``index-name`` for selecting a table from a
	list fast and efficiently. It has the most important information
	first and no redundant information. It should look nice when sorted.
	This in contrast to the existing ``display-name`` field which is for
	describing a table accurately and should sound good. Thanks to Dave
	Mielke and Bert Frees.

	Bug fixes
	---------

	- Don't let a caps passage end on a word with no letters. Thanks to
	Bert Frees.
	- Handle word resets in the last word of an caps or emphasis passage if
	the end indicator was placed before the word. Thanks to Bert Frees.
	- Never convert to lowercase if ``capsletter`` is not defined. Thanks
	to Bert Frees.
	- Fix position mapping for back-translation when ``noUndefined`` mode
	is active. Thanks to Dave Mielke.
	- Fix bug where a translation would hang on words that match both a
	``nocont`` and a ``repeated`` rule. Thanks to Dave Mielke.
	- Fix bug where the effect of ``capsnocont`` would leak to the next
	word if that word starts with a capital. Thanks to Bue
	Vester-Andersen.

	Braille table improvements
	--------------------------

	- Fix an issue with ordinal numbers inside caps passages in Dutch
	braille. Thanks to Bert Frees.
	- Improved back-translation for Mongolian thanks to Angaragerdene.
	- Fixes to Polish grade 1 and Polish computer braille thanks to Łukasz
	Golonka.
	- Improvements to Ancient Greek braille, which has been renamed
	"Greek international braille". A version with composed
	accents is made available as a .uti table. Thanks to Dave Mielke and
	Μαρια Γεωργακαράκου (Maria Georgakarakou).
	- Various improvements to modern Greek thanks to Dave Mielke.
	- Improvements and fixes to Spanish contracted braille. Details in
	#741. Thanks to Juan Pablo Bello.
	- Improvements and fixes to the Danish tables. Thanks to Bue
	Vester-Andersen.
	- Add a display table to match Word CX which is used in Norway and
	Sweden, and maybe also in other countries thanks to Lars Bjørndal.
	- Fix handling of colon within number in Dutch braille, thanks to Jake
	Kyle.
	- Fix translation of bullet and dot operators in Dutch braille, thanks
	to Paul Rambags
	- Added North American Braille Computer Code table (``en-nabcc.utb``)
	which is the counterpart of the ``text_nabcc.dis`` display table.
	Thanks to Dave Mielke.
	- Add support for the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to the
	Chinese bopomofo braille table, thanks to Hurt Huang and Sponge Jhan.
	Various improvements, including dot patterns and test cases, to the
	Chinese bopomofo braille table, thanks to Sponge Jhan.
	- Unified English Braille no longer displays a single underscore when
	multiple underscores are in the text, thanks to André-Abush Clause.
	- Update to Afrikaans uncontracted braille and new table for contracted
	braille. Thanks to Christo de Klerk and Greg Kearney.
	- Update Irish braille (contracted and uncontracted) to the May 2019
	version of the specification, thanks to Ronan McGuirk

	Other changes
	-------------

	- The python wrapper now encodes and decodes strings to/from UTF-16 and
	UTF-32 using the surrogatepass error handler. This ensures that
	single UTF-16 surrogate characters are processed correctly by the
	wrapper and don't raise an encoding/decoding error. Thanks to Leonard
	de Ruijter.
	- Metadata keys and values are now case insensitive, thanks to Dave
	Mielke.
	- Remove ``unicodedefs.cti``. It was obsolete and never meant to be
	included by any tables. Instead use the online references as
	mentioned in the documentation now. See also #696.
	- ``lou_checkyaml`` test reporting has been improved, thanks to Bert
	Frees. For example it now has a ``--verbose`` option so that printing
	of expected failures can be enabled.
	- Hyphenation tables have been removed from tables except those needed
	for ``nocross`` rules, thanks to Bert Frees.

	The idea is that the caller (for example ``odt2braille`` or
	``liblouisutdml``) should be able to decide for themselves which
	hyphenation table to use. The case in which a table contains nocross
	rules is an exception. In this case the hyphenation patterns are a
	real part of the table. Because it is not recommended to append an
	own hyphenation table in this case, a ``#-has-nocross`` metadata
	field was added to indicate that a table contains nocross rules.
	- ``lou_hyphenate`` can now handle more than just words (sequences of
	letters), e.g compound words, thanks to Bert Frees.

	Deprecation notice
	------------------

	- The ``noUndefinedDots`` mode has been renamed to ``noUndefined``. For
	backwards compatibility ``noUndefinedDots`` is still available in the
	header file and in the Python bindings, as an alias for
	``noUndefined``.

	Backwards incompatible changes
	------------------------------

	None

	Invisible changes
	-----------------

	- Internally separate more clearly the display and translation phases.

	New, renamed or removed tables
	------------------------------

	New
	~~~

	- grc-international-common.uti
	- grc-international-composed.uti
	- grc-international-decomposed.uti
	- en-nabcc.utb

	Renamed
	~~~~~~~

	- gr-bb.ctb -> grc-international-en.utb

	Removed
	~~~~~~~

	- unicodedefs.cti
	- fi-fi.ctb

	Next release
	============

	The next release will be published on December 2 2019 so please keep up
	the excellent work and keep those improvements coming.

	Share and Enjoy!

	– Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers

	Footnotes
	=========

	.. [1]
	https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables

	.. [2]
	https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml

	.. [3]
	https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/21?closed=1