[BRLTTY] What is the best way to deal with Unicode characters?

[Shérab]

Hi,

Dave Mielke (2019/09/28 15:28 -0400):
> [quoted lines by Shérab on 2019/09/28 at 18:32 +0200]
> 
> >For me the issue would be more about realising that, for instance,
> >\alpha is actually just one character. For instance I can imagine myself
> >very well wanting to delete that all word and pressing backspace several
> >times automatically when one press is enough to get rid of it.
> 
> If it's a single character on the screen then one backspace will delete it even
> if the contracted braille representation occupies multiple cells.

Sure, I realise that, I'm just afraid I'll type too quickly, expecting
to have to remove several characters, before realise I removed too many
of them. But it's perhaps just a matter of getting used to it, I don't
know.

> >The other issue I can see is the loss of vertical alignment. For
> >instance, imagine one has:
> >
> >\alhpa = 1
> >\beta = 2
> >
> >but with the unicode representations. Then visually the equal signs are
> >aligned, which they won't be with our textual representaitons.
> 
> This, I believe, is exactly why Aura would like to be able to turn off
> contracted braille and still have all eight dots.

Sure, makes sense.

> The way I do it for other alphabets (French, German, Greek, Hebrew) is to add
> dot 8 to the computer braille representations for the special symbols. For
> example, I represent a Greek alpha as dots 18, and a French e with an acute
> accent as dots 1234568. And, if you're wondering, yes I add dot 7 for uppercase
> as well.

But I guess there can not be a one-cell trick for any character, right.
The quantifiers for instance, the arows, the logical operators...

Shérab.