[BRLTTY] about descchar binding

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le Sat 31 Jan 2009 13:18:47 +0100, a écrit :
> Dave Mielke, le Sat 31 Jan 2009 03:02:24 -0500, a écrit :
> > [quoted lines by 高生旺 on 2009/01/31 at 15:52 +0800]
> > 
> > >For Chinese, may I add more information to descchar?
> > 
> > Right now we use the description associated with the character as supplied by 
> > the Unicode database. It seems to be rather generic for the ideographic 
> > characters, and, therefore, doesn't seem to be very helpful. For the benefit of 
> > other readers, the Unicode character 9000, for example, has, for its 
> > description, the rather useless phrase "CJK UNIFIED IDEDOGRAPH-9000".
> > 
> > Does each of those characters have a specific meaning, or can a character have 
> > one meaning in one language and another meaning in another language?
> > 
> > Do you have a list of what each of those characters actually means?
> 
> That list already exists: there is a more descriptive field in Unicode,
> for instance for U+9000 it says:
> 
> `Definition in English: step back, retreat, withdraw
> Mandarin Pronunciation: TUI4
> Cantonese Pronunciation: teoi3
> Japanese On Pronunciation: TAI TON
> Japanese Kun Pronunciation: SHIRIZOKU SHIRIZOKERU
> Tang Pronunciation: *tuə̀i
> Korean Pronunciation: THOY'

I haven't found how to get them from libicu yet, but from libgucharmap
these are returned by gucharmap_get_unicode_k{Definition, Cantonese,
Mandarin, Tang, Korean, JapaneseKun, JapaneseOn}.

This seems to be quite specific to CJK, I haven't found similar things
for other scripts. Maybe that could be an additional preference, to let
the user choose which language to replace CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH
with.

Samuel