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

Shérab Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Sat Sep 28 12:46:02 EDT 2019


Hi,

Dave Mielke (2019/09/23 08:40 -0400):
> That leaves us with a decision. We have three choices:
> 
> 1) The way it is now. Use the replacement character if it's defined, else use
>    all eight dots.
> 
> 2) Use the reaplcement character if defined, else do a text table looukp.
> 
> 3) Skip the replacement character and just do a text table lookup.
> 
> Will one of these do or should we add a (probably rarely used) new selector for
> it?

Wouldn't one other possibility be to use the Unicode description of the
character? I am thinking for instance about smileys here. What od you
think?

Shérab.


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