[BRLTTY] de.ttb

[Mario Lang]

Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 01:30:12AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
>
>> >There are other things like certain symbols are kind of duplicated in Unicode.  
>> >But I cant think of any right now, I'd need to check.
>
> As I remember, accented letters are among these: there are so-called
> "combining" characters that allow the letter and the accent to be specified
> separately, as well as characters that represent the accented letters as
> single, combined entities.

Well, a separate character would mean that one representation uses more
cells than another, right?  Normalising that sounds wrong.

> One solution to this is to "normalize" the Unicode string before it reaches
> the braille translation functions, so that only one representation is ever
> used for those characters.

If DESCCHAR still returns the original character value, I agree.  If not,
I disagree...  DESCCHAR should always report the actual character...

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