[BRLTTY] Why now each Chinese character appended a space automatically on braille display?

Didier Spaier didier at slint.fr
Thu Dec 25 18:36:04 UTC 2025


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Didier

25 déc. 2025 17:18:09 Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc>:

> [quoted lines by 高生旺 on 2025/12/25 at 13:12 +0800]
> 
>> A Question as subject. Was it related to new kernel or what? Thanks!
> 
> Thanks for letting us know. Yes, you're correct, but in a totally unexpected way. It's now fixed in brltty's latest development code.
> 
> For the technically curious: The reason is that Unicode doesn't define a zero-width space as whitespace. This was totally unexpected - at least by me - so the code did look right but wasn't.
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