[BRLTTY] de.ttb

[Elias Oltmanns]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Hermann on 2008/08/08 at 11:07 +0200]
>
[...]
>>> On first sight, this looks wrong. Given that we have 2^8 possible
>>> chars and 2^8 possible dot-patterns, we shouldn't reuse the
>>> same dot pattern for two different characters.
>>You are right, and I think my suggestion is a solution.
>
> Well ... it was to use dots 13678 which also maps to CTRL-U. Should we take 
> this opportunity to first resolve that conflict? Note that it only really 
> matters for those who do keyboard input from their braille displays.

This is not the only ambiguity, by the way. We have

char \xA7	(12345678)  # A7 ⣿ § [SECTION SIGN]
char \xB6	(12345678)  # B6 ⣿ ¶ [PILCROW SIGN]
char \xDB	(12345678)  # DB ⣿ Û [LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX]

on the other hand, the dot patterns (1 3456 8) and ( 2 456 8) are not in
use.

Regards,

Elias