[BRLTTY] Contraction table fallback.

S. Massy smassy at wolfdream.ca
Mon Sep 23 14:09:52 EDT 2019


On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:02:18PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2019/09/23 at 08:40 -0400]
> 
> I'm reposting this question (of mine) under a new subject so as to solicit
> general discussion. The issue is what should happen when using a contraction
> table if a character isn't defined within that table.
> 
> >That leaves us with a decision. We have three choices:
> >
> >1) The way it is now. Use the Unicode replacement character if it's defined,
>     else use all eight dots.
> >
> >2) Use the reaplcement character if defined, else do a text table looukp.
This seems to me to be the most intuitive and flexible behaviour.

The only time when 1 might be preferable is during development/debugging
of a contraction table.
S.M.
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