Hello Harri,

I have took the latest beta for a spin right now and I am sure slovak braille may not be fully up to date.

Here is what I am seeing and I wish to be improved for the future.

While typing I can type some of the diacritic characters and punctuation symbols such as dots 16 for á (a with acute), dots 2346 for ž (z with caron), dots 236 for ( (left paren), dots 356 for ) (right paren) and more. However when using 4 finger swipe left as backspace key a different symbols are spoken. For example when deleting letter ž I am getting "exclaim" spoken. While deleting letter á I am getting "asterisk" spoken.
In slovak we have just single grade.
Also the issue I have mentioned previously that I am unable to type in numbers using numeric prefix 3456 this is working fine after all but I see it a little bit missleading. As soon as I type in 3456 I will get hash spoken. Then when continuing typing in I am getting a, b, c, d and similar spoken but numbers are written into the buffer correctly.

Now after reading the help I can understand the workflow with numbers is somewhat expected as when pressing the space or the enter key the input is processed for contractions.

However I don't yet understand why something else is being spoken when using the backspace key. I can understand that 16 for asterisk, 2346 for exclaim, 236 for number 8 are used for some braille codes but not for slovak, so I'd like to better understand this and come up with a natural workflow.

As I have mentioned previously now we have introduced and standardized a way to type much more symbols by using dot 5,46 and dot 5,4 prefixes with the Braille Authority of Slovakia. For example to type in the $ (dollar sign) we can do dot 5, followed by dot 4 followed by dots 234. To type in # (hash sign) we can press dot 5, then dots 46, then dots 3456.

Would there be a way to get mbraille understand these new additional braille codes for slovak please?

Since liblouis 3.22 these are implemented for liblouis and since liblouis 3.36 there are some latest corrections and additions available.

Also the Braille Authority of Slovakia have published papers standardizing these slovak braille code features and if doable I'd like to make MBraille capable of handling it all.

I am technical contact for the liblouis related work here in slovakia, so if you think my input might be usefull toward improving MBraille as well, I'm happy to remain available for the cooperation and discussions.

Huge thanks for working on it.

Greetings

Peter

Dňa 16. 12. 2025 o 20:57 Harri Pasanen napísal(a):

Hi Petr,

Thanks for the positive feedback. Regarding braille tables, liblouis is used for some, but not all languages. Might be that Slovak is not yet using liblouis. I'll check and will make a try with the Slovak tables.

Yes, I used AI for the first cut of the translations, but it may well need some curation. I will provide you the translation files to look at.

Best regards,

Harri
On Tuesday, 16 December 2025 at 09:37, Peter Vágner <pvdeejay@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

On my phone the app is working fine.
I haven't tested it with talkback yet but the self voicing mode is working great.
It's important to know that for me it's easier to calibrate the keyboard by placing each finger on the screen individually rather than placing all 6 fingers at once.
Gesture system is similar to what I was used to with the previous version.
Is this eventually also going to work as a system wide keyboard on android in the future?

Can you kindly remind us how language translations of the app are handled now? I suspect the AI is used for generating translations. Will you accept translation work from volunteers the way it used to work in the past?

Also what about braille tables? Is liblouis used internally or are these custom tables?

With slovak braille table multi cell symbols don't appear to work for me. For example when pressing dots 3456 the # symbol is typed instead of switching into number mode. Dot 5 is also used as a prefix, dots 45 and dots 56 too.
If liblouis is used internally the proper braille table for slovak is sk-g1.ctb. If there are custom braille tables in use similar how it used to work in the past, then I think I need to contribute changes as the braille has been formalized in slovakia since last stable version and there are some minor changes.

Huge thanks for the updates

Greetings

Peter

Dňa 15. 12. 2025 o 22:05 Harri Pasanen via MBraille-Test napísal(a):
Hi,

To join Android testers, the following link should work

https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/3d179fa6bb49f4b9

Best regards,

Harri
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