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

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, S. Massy wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 04:10:07PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 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...

Well, I doubt you'll be reading weird unicode characters at full speed 
anyway.


Nicolas