Comment 1 by jteh on 2013-06-20 02:50
What you suggest makes sense, though the question is whether it complies with the Hebrew braille code and whether other Hebrew users will understand it.

NVDA uses the liblouis braille translator, so this would best be discussed on the liblouis mailing list. It'd be great if you could subscribe and start disucssion there.

The file you want to edit is called he.ctb in the louis\tables subdirectory of your NVDA program directory. You can find documentation about liblouis (including editing tables) on the liblouis website linked above.

Attachment he.ctb added by falinn.onda on 2013-06-20 18:27
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Comment 3 by falinn.onda on 2013-06-20 18:31
Thanks!!!
It only took me five minutes to tweak the file and now it seems to work.

I have discussed this topic with two experienced braille readers. One of them is the most famous braille teacher for Hebrew (he taught most of Hebrew braille readers as far as i know)

They both agreed that the suggested fix is reasonable and said that there is no other known fix.

I attach the file, maybe someone else in the community will find it helpful.

My suggestion is that i'll try testing it for a while and show it to the teacher in practice on Sunday.

Comment 4 by falinn.onda (in reply to comment 1) on 2013-06-24 12:02
After reading the Hebrew table i realize that there are several issues with the current tables. One is the final issue i mentioned but there are also other duplications of unicodes and many missing codes which are commonly used.
For example there is no tab and types of newline and other symbols.

I am in the process of creating a table which will be better, at least for me and my community. It will take a lot of time but in the end we will try to contact louise, hopefully..

I do have one request though:
I think it is a good idea that NVDA will enable users to customize tables, if they know the table format (by referring to louise docs).
A simple way is to add several more tables files: custom1.utb costum2.utb and custom3.utb.
Those files should be listed in the output and input table combo.
That way the user will be able to edit those files to its needs without changing standard tables.
For example i will be able to write a file like

inluding existing standard files (the real file names are a bit different)

include hebrew-8dots
include numberslower6points
include englishwith8dot

all sort of additions/fixes which are relevant for the user

Do you think this enhancement might be possible?
I think this is better than users overriding existing tables...

Comment 5 by jteh on 2013-06-24 23:38
Support for custom tables should be handled in a separate ticket. In brief, I'd prefer not to do this for several reasons:

• Coming up with an elegant user interface for this is tricky.
• We then have to document and explain how it works.
• It encourages users to copy files into the NVDA program directory. In general, users should never touch the NVDA program directory, only their config directory.

Comment 6 by nvdakor on 2014-05-30 02:24
Hi,
Recently, LibLouis devs have incorporated new Hebrew table into LibLouis, so LibLouis 2.6 may solve this ticket.

@josephsl's #3284 (comment) suggests that recent LibLouis developments may have solved this ticket. Could someone please test and triage this ticket accordingly?

@josephsl, do you know if this issue has been resolved? Your #3284 (comment) suggests that it may be

As NVDA is now using LibLouis 3.6, and #3284 (comment) suggests this may have been resolved in version 2.6, I am going to close this issue. If this issue comes up again in the future, we can revisit this issue.