[BRLTTY] Braille in CLDR
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri May 26 16:35:12 EDT 2006
Nicolas Pitre, le Fri 26 May 2006 13:51:42 -0400, a écrit :
> Therefore Unicode should really stick to straight braille glyph
> representations and leave more complex transformation/encoding to
> specialized applications.
We're talking about CLDR, not Unicode.
> Otherwise you'll have to consider the Nemeth
> braille code for mathematic symbols, the different musical braille
> codes, etc. And even the different institutions for the blind around
> the world didn't agree with each other yet on a common standard for
> straight uncontracted braille even in the same language, so...
maybe trying to put such information in CLDR would help agreeing? At
least for French, there _has_ been an effort to agree on uncontracted
braille. But some languages (like hindi for instance) have very
varying braille writing indeed.
Samuel
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