[BRLTTY] braille Unicode input in X

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2021/03/27 at 17:50 +0100]

>Alexander Epaneshnikov, le sam. 27 mars 2021 19:41:15 +0300, a ecrit:
>> 27.03.2021 19:31, Samuel Thibault пишет:
>> > Alexander Epaneshnikov, le sam. 27 mars 2021 18:21:28 +0300, a ecrit:
>> > > I configured brltty to output Unicode braille patterns.
>> > How did you tell brltty to do so?
>> i used braille typing mode in preferences menu.
>
>Dave, I would say that we'd want to extend the retainDots
>brlapi parameter from boolean to a tri-state: forceyes, forceno,
>user-defined, that could default to user-defined. That way most clients
>will get what the user wants, unless the client explicitly says whether
>it wants dots or characters?

No because those who want dots really want dots. We should change what translating to text does based on prefs.brailleTypingMode. In fact, I'm now wondering if this should be hidden behind a wrapper to translateDotsToText().

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