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

[S. Massy]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 04:10:07PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, S. Massy wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> We may blink dots 7 and 8 for that. If, say, dot 7 blinks then this is 
> the equivalent of dot 9 being active. Same for dot 8 representing dot 
> 10. And the time period may preserve the actual dot 7/8 state. For 
> example, if dot 7 is on 3/4 of the time and off 1/4 of the time, that 
> means dot 7 is normally set when not blinking. And if it is on 1/4 and 
> off 3/4 of the time then it is normally unset.
That's a very clever solution but I wonder how practical that would be
at regular reading speed. Perhaps if we increased the blinking rate
sufficiently it might work...

Cheers,
S.M.
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