[BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

covici at ccs.covici.com covici at ccs.covici.com
Wed Mar 5 01:47:09 EST 2014


If I type all 8 dots, I get 8bc3 in hex.

covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:

> hmmm, if I type all 8 dots, it comes out a question mark instead of all
> 8 dots -- what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> > [quoted lines by covici at ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:00 -0500]
> > 
> > >My table is en-naccb.ttb.
> > 
> > In the en-nabcc text table, the only character represented by all eight dots is 
> > a capital letter E with a diaeresis accent (two dots above it). You may know 
> > this accent by its name in another language. For example, in French it's called 
> > a tréma, and in German it's called an umlaut. This character has a hexadecimal 
> > value of CB, and a decimal value of 203. You can probably enter it by holding 
> > down the left alt key while typing the three digits 203 on the numeric pad.
> > 
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