[BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns
Lars Bjørndal
lars at lamasti.net
Thu Oct 22 14:59:10 EDT 2020
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:14:22AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2020/10/22 at 01:00 -0400]
>
> >I think he wants to distinguish a braille 'a' from the regular letter
> >'a'. Right now they're indistinguishable unless you use DESCCHAR on the
> >whole screen.
>
> That's what I thought, but I'm not convinced that that's a good idea.
>
> >My initial thought was to remove the definition for those unicode
> >braille characters from the braille table, but there doesn't seem to be
> >any such definition.
>
> The support for them is in the core. The order is to look for braille patterns,
> and then in the text table. I suppose we could look in the text table first,
> thus making it possible for the table to define them.
Just a thoght; could the braille pattern characters be set to blink on the display, on request?
Thanks
Lars
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