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

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by S. Massy on 2019/09/28 at 16:21 -0400]

>Really? Do you have an example of such a model 

Off the "top of my head", the examples that come to mind are the Orbit (which
has no oruting keys) and the BrailleMe and Canute (which only use six dots).

One of the now venture capitalist owned manufacturers included, within its new
name and location announcement, that one of the great aspects of its new site
was the great view its emloyees have from its windows. Talk about rubbing in
the faces of its customers the fact that a chunk of their hard spent money has
gone to a frill that none of them would ever be able to take any advantage of.

>and is there at least some commensurate savings on the price of the device?

I'm not an economist but, yes, I assume that less components must mean a
correspondingly lower price. I've heard (but never confirmed) that each
individual dot of a piezzo-electric cell costs around $20, so the cost of those
two additional dots (7 and 8) does add up as the display size increases.

>I've long thought that 8-dog computer braille should make its way to
>paper braille as it greatly increases the symbolspace and thus decreases
>the need for prefix notation. 

But it also correspondingly decreases the number of lines, and therefore the
amount of information, on each individual page.

>Obviously, nobody agrees with me, though, as my son is being taught to
>exclusively use UEB braille on his display which makes no use of dots 7-8
>except for denoting cursor position and highlighting.

Can't even show cursor potison, highlighting, etc when the cells only have six
dots. Brltty will need to be supporting these six-dot displays so, as always,
I'd sure appreciate suggestions.

>I don't ever see myself giving up 8-dot computer braille.

As they say in bad English - "me neither!"

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