[BRLTTY] Low-level BrlAPI questions

Aura Kelloniemi kaura.dev at sange.fi
Thu Apr 15 12:23:59 EDT 2021


On 2021-04-15 at 17:59 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
 > Sébastien Hinderer, le jeu. 15 avril 2021 17:54:33 +0200, a ecrit:
 > > Perhaps we should rename it to brlapi_writeTextUTF16 then, withthe due
 > > deprecation logic? It'd feel more meaningful to me than a name talking
 > > aobut the OS. What do you think, Samuel?

 > "UTF16" will not ring any bell to windows programmers.
 > And UTF16 is not used by non-windows programmers.

Side note: Widow$ does not actually use UTF-16. Window$' characters are
arbitrary 16-bit integers which may or may not denote a valid UTF-16 sequence.

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Aura


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