[BRLTTY] Should we start modernizing grade 2 symbols?
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Fri Apr 24 12:36:20 EDT 2009
[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2009/04/24 at 12:14 -0400]
>At least some of brltty's grade 2 representations of special
>characters (=, <, >, [, ], and others) are I think either from an
>older code or maybe home-grown.
I believe they were, at least in some part, borrowed from Nemeth since they had
no known (at least to us) standard representation at the time.
>Attached is a patch that moves some of these into the modern (January 2008)
>era.
Thanks.
>Note that with one exception the question here is not "do we like these new
>configurations". The questions are, A, did I apply the new standards properly,
>and B, what did I miss?
I agree. Our grade 2 representations should be correct.
>The one exception that I don't think we can apply is the
>underscore. Unless I'm mistaken it's supposed to be dots 4-6.
Then let's make it so. Feel free to include this change in your next patch.
>The problem is that brltty drops into computer braille for certain things it
>decides are computer codes. In computer braille dots 4-6 is the period, of
>course, and this leaves confusion as to exactly what these dots may represent.
I don't think that's true any more. If it still does that, please give me an
example. It's not supposed to.
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