[BRLTTY] Problem with terminus font
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Feb 8 19:21:22 EST 2016
Dave Mielke, on Mon 08 Feb 2016 19:09:36 -0500, wrote:
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2016/02/09 at 01:00 +0100]
> >> For any given glyph, brltty uses the first one in the map. My guess, therefore,
> >> is that the font is defined with NUL as the main character and space as an
> >> alias for it.
> >
> >Which is unfortunate, but probably happens not so rarely, thus perhaps
> >special-casing the space glyph?
>
> Okay, I think I'm understanding what you mean, now. If a glyph includes space
> then assume that space should be used, right?
Yes.
> Can you think of any other characters that fall into this situation?
Well, a lot of characters could: apostrophe, for instance, have curved
versions, which some fonts may want to alias.
Perhaps a rule of thumb would be to take the character which has the
lowest unicode value.
Samuel
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