[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> On 2025-04-09 at 22:11 -0400, Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> wrote:
>  > OK. I think I've fixed all those issues. I stole your description above 
>  > for my cover letter and submitted a patch series here:
> 
>  >   https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/4/9/1952
> 
> This is absolutely great! Thank you!
> 
> What does the new implementation do with combining characters? Is it able to
> turn a sequence of "combining diaeresis" + "latin small letter a" into ä, or
> does it simply discard the combining character?

By default, it translates most commonly used Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic 
recompositions (71 cases) while dropping the combining mark in the other 
cases as a zero-width code point. But if you want the full set, you may 
regenerate the lookup table with the provided script for a total of 1000 
cases.