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

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Sat Sep 28 16:06:04 EDT 2019


[quoted lines by S. Massy on 2019/09/28 at 15:53 -0400]

>This is beyond the scope of this thread but 

Others may like to do that kind of "thread plicing", but I don't.

>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.

An interesting idea, except that the vendor count is decreaisng and the venture
capitalists are taking over. :-( Also, really modern displays have started
reverting back to six dots per cell. Some even have no routing keys.

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