[BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Anyway to get brltty to display the character correctly -- at least for
this one?

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by covici at ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:34 -0500]
> 
> >hmmm, if I type all 8 dots, it comes out a question mark instead of all
> >8 dots -- what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Probably nothing. By pressing all eight dots, you're entering the desired 
> character. The system then tries to display that character. The problem is that 
> your currently selected font probably doesn't contain that character, which 
> means that the system doesn't know which glyph to present on the screen for it. 
> When brltty encounters an unmapped Unicode character, it presents it as a 
> question mark.
> 
> You may be wondering why any given font wouldn't contain all of the characters. 
> The reason is that a monitor, when in text mode, only supports at most 512 
> glyphs. This means that screen font writers do their best to decide which 512 
> characters would be the most useful, and, of course, that may mean not 
> including your favourite character.
> 
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