[BRLTTY] What is the best way to deal with Unicode characters?

[S. Massy]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 03:28:38PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> The way I do it for other alphabets (French, German, Greek, Hebrew) is to add
> dot 8 to the computer braille representations for the special symbols. For
> example, I represent a Greek alpha as dots 18, and a French e with an acute
> accent as dots 1234568. And, if you're wondering, yes I add dot 7 for uppercase
> as well.
This approach works perfectly for accented characters (at least in
French), and also worked great to denote latin characters in Cyrillic,
but I wonder how well that would work for more complex characters that
cannot be represented with a single cell.

This is beyond the scope of this thread but I sometimes feel like it's
time to add two more dots to displays for a total of ten: this would
give us more flexibility to keep up with new Unicode characters.

Regards,
S.M.
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