[BRLTTY] ***Spam*** Re: Re: How to find Unicode characters and change their grade 2 translation?

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Wed Apr 9 16:33:43 EDT 2014


[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2014/04/07 at 20:43 -0400]

>>The UTF-8 value E28094 decodes to the Unicode character
>>2014, which is an "em dash".
>
>That's very nice, but I haven't the slightest idea what that means.
>All I know is that in grade 2 it should translate into two hyphens
>and it translates into only one. I can fix it for myself in my xdg
>file but it really represents a misbehavior in the "contracted
>English braille" facility.

Do you know which font you're using? None of the fonts I've tried so far 
contain it, and I can't test it without such a font.

Alternatively, you could send a patch. You should be able to represent the 
character in the table as \u2014.

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