[BRLTTY] [SPAM] Re: A strange Unicode translation

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2012/07/02 at 21:56 -0400]

>In an ideal world the brltty-ctb translations would be identical to those 
>produced by turning grade 2 from the braille display. But instead we get the 
>translation (read this in computer braille):
>
>prot,,`a7,c7g,,`a7,c7

This is what I'm unable to reproduce.

>I suppose my first question is: Is the 8-character series intentional?

no, not at all.

>I just tried changing my brltty-ctb command to specify -ten-nabcc and
>by golly it works! So I guess that solves _my_ problem, though
>somebody else may stumble across this sometime.

Whatever's going on is still a problem. I'll check the code for how characters 
not defined within the text table are handled.

>Sorry if I've wasted your time,

It's never a waste of time to point out a problem, even if a workaround is 
discovered.

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