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

[高生旺]

Thank you very much!

On Thu, 25 Dec 2025, Dave Mielke wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:24:53 -0500
> From: Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc>
> Reply-To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
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> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
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> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Why now each Chinese character appended a space
>     automatically on braille display?
> 
> [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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