[BRLTTY] Braille in CLDR

[Jason White]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:57:26AM +0300, Erkki Kolehmainen wrote:
> The UCS/Unicode standards already contain the encoding of the Braille symbols. 
Yes, and I agree this first step is a good idea.
> What we are talking here as the first step with CLDR (with the forthcoming 1.5 
> as the target release) is to map the symbols (in 6-bit and 8-bit forms) at 
> least in each language_country environment (and possibly more refined as 
> variants) to the corresponding values (i.e., mostly characters).
What are the use cases for this? Have any implementors of braille software
expressed a desire for it? Are there applications that require it? How would
it relate to the work of the various braille standards bodies around the
world?