[BRLTTY] Low-level BrlAPI questions

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Apr 15 13:26:08 EDT 2021


Dave Mielke, le jeu. 15 avril 2021 13:01:53 -0400, a ecrit:
> [quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2021/04/15 at 17:54 +0200]
> 
> >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. 
> 
> Note that Java (so on Android) also uses UTF-16, so it isn't a specific OS thing.

Yes, but the Java bindings can use brlapi__write.

The C API has to care to

- provide convenient C functions for end-programmers
- provide powerful functions for bindings

I don't think we want to add a plethora of functions that
end-programmers won't use anyway, while a single powerful function is
enough for all binding needs.

Samuel


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