[BRLTTY] Braille tables versus contraction tables.

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:

> The only significant component of brltty which isn't yet Unicode-based is the 
> text tables support. What do you people think of getting rid of them and just 
> using contraction tables (whetther or not we eventually rename them is another 
> topic)? We could simply convert our current text tables into equivalent 
> contraction tables.

What is there to gain by doing so?

Note that I think that text tables should indeed be UTF-8 based.  But 
their simplicity and obviousness is worth keeping around I would say, 
especially if contracted braille can be configured out to slim down the 
BRLTTY binary.


Nicolas