[BRLTTY] Contracted emojis?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2018/09/27 at 20:11 +0200]

>With the upcoming full unicode console support, I am wondering if we
>want to handle emojis in contracted braille mode?

That's a good idea. I hope they've all been grouped into a defined set of
character classes which we could then automatically check for. We could do this
if we encounter a character that isn't defined wihtin the contraction table.

>The english case could be autogenerated from the unicode names I guess.
>But for other languages, we'd need a list of translations.
>Given that, brltty should probably autogenerate the contracted
>description inline, if a certain flag is set.

Yes, again if the emoji characters are easily identifiable.

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