[BRLTTY] Braille in CLDR

[Samuel Thibault]

Nicolas Pitre, le Fri 26 May 2006 13:51:42 -0400, a écrit :
> Therefore Unicode should really stick to straight braille glyph 
> representations and leave more complex transformation/encoding to 
> specialized applications.

We're talking about CLDR, not Unicode.

> Otherwise you'll have to consider the Nemeth 
> braille code for mathematic symbols, the different musical braille 
> codes, etc.  And even the different institutions for the blind around 
> the world didn't agree with each other yet on a common standard for 
> straight uncontracted braille even in the same language, so...

maybe trying to put such information in CLDR would help agreeing?  At
least for French, there _has_ been an effort to agree on uncontracted
braille.  But some languages (like hindi for instance) have very
varying braille writing indeed.

Samuel