diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6e5ab7eba..bb5614048 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ _ Fixed a bug in backtranslation, when a letsign was encountered, the - Fix for Norwegian where letsign is affecting some extra characters thanks to Lars Bjørndal - Much improved hyphenation for Norwegian thanks to Lars Bjørndal +- New Hebrew table that is based on the new unified Hebrew Braille + code standard that was put together on January 2014 after a + conference with all of the specialists in this field in Israel. It + includes improved representation of Hebrew letters, special letters + that are called Nikud, and punctuation symbols. The old Braille + standard is not relevant any more. Thanks to Adi Kushnir. * Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.4 (2014-3-3) This release contains nine months worth of braille table improvements diff --git a/tables/he.ctb b/tables/he.ctb index b85cde543..7f9765cae 100644 --- a/tables/he.ctb +++ b/tables/he.ctb @@ -21,11 +21,12 @@ # License along with liblouis. If not, see # . # -# This table is based on the Unesco report on the progress of unification of -# braille writing « L'ÉCRITURE BRAILLE DANS LE MONDE », by Sir Clutha -# MACKENZIE: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001352/135251fo.pdf -# The document is dated 1954, so this table may be quite outdated. - +# This table is based on the new unified Hebrew Braille code standard +# that was put together on January 2014 after a conference with all of +# the specialists in this field in Israel. It includes improved +# representation of Hebrew letters, special letters that are called +# Nikud, and punctuation symbols. The old Braille standard is not +# relevant any more. # generated by ttbtest space \s 0 # SPACE