Noteworthy changes in this release

This release contains updates to the Afrikaans, Malayalam, Malay, Israeli, classical English and Portuguese tables. It also contains a new table for Coptic thanks to first-time contributor Ibraam Nasif. Behind the scenes there have been major changes to the cross-compilation tool-chain that will finally allow us to ship pre-built windows binaries that contain lou_checkyaml.exe.

For a detailed list of all the changes refer to the list of closed issues.

New features

None

Bug fixes

None

Braille table improvements

• New computer braille table for the Coptic language thanks to Ibraam Nasif from Coptic Bishopric of Youth
• Improvements to Afrikaans thanks to Christo de Klerk
  • Fixed correct handling of the ʼn character (0x149)
  • Prevent contraction of
    • "self" in "selfoon", "selfone",
    • "ui" in words and names like "quisling", "quidproquo", "quiëtis", "Quinten", "Quintus",
    • "er" in words like "konstituering".
• Improved table for Malayalam grade 1 thanks to Jake Kyle.
  • Fixed rules for Candrakkala character at the end of a word.
  • Fixed rules for letters ര മ ങ in certain contexts.
  • Improved back-translation.
• Improvements to grade 2 Malay braille thanks to Herbert Koh.
• Improvements to Israeli 6-dot thanks to BAUM Engineering.
  • Fixed number sign for Arabic digits.
  • Fixed Hebrew letters with dagesh.
• Added bullets to the classical English tables, thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen
• Improved Portuguese grade 1 thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen.
  • Fixed forward translation of &, <, >, `, ¶ and '.
  • Improved back-translation. The table is now tagged as going both forward and backward.
  • Added missing square root sign.

Other changes

None

Deprecation notice

None

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Invisible changes

• Major rework of the cross-compilation tool-chain. There are now Docker images that should allow for local builds of binaries for 32 and 64 bit. These include the libyaml library so the binaries contain lou_checkyaml.exe. This will allow table creators to test their changes locally under windows.

New, renamed or removed tables

New

• cop-eg-comp8.utb

Renamed

None

Removed

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