[BRLTTY] The unknown-character sign (26)

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Jason White on 2008/11/24 at 17:54 +1100]

>The next step would be to define appropriate characters in all of the text
>tables, to ensure that the default representation doesn't occur in any of the
>supplied configurations (unless for some languages it is specifically
>desired).

Or explicitly define \uFFFD to something else. The uppercase e with acute 
accent in the en_CA text table (which is good for English, French, German, and 
Italian), for example, is represented by all eight dots.

>I still think question mark with a dot 7 or dot 8, defined in each table, is a
>good policy, but that's only my opinion.

Welel, let's see what others have to say. In the end, of course, there's no 
ideal answer. Back to the en_CA text table for a moment. The question mark 
[dots 1456] is what it is. With dot 7 added it's an inverted question mark. 
With dot 8 added it's a lowercase o with circumflex. With both dots 7 and 8 
added it's an uppercase o with circumflex. The latter two are what they are 
because o with circumflex is dots 1456 in both French and Italian.

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