[BRLTTY] Multi-column characters (was: Re: 6.5 soon)

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Hello,

On 2022-01-31 at 14:41 -0500, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
 > I guess we need to be able to live with the way Linux has done it even
 > though, in my opinion, it's the wrong way. Linux adds padding in the wrong
 > places, i.e. to the wide chracters. To achieve proper columnization, a
 > language that uses wide characters would introduce padding to the
 > corresponding single-byte characters where necessary.

What do you mean by corresponding single-byte characters? Are you talkig about
characters which have a single-byte representation a particular character set
or characters which have a single-column wide glyph?

I wish Linux console would be fixed and upgraded for the 21st century so that
it would have proper Unicode font support. More realistic probably is to get
other terminal emulators to work with BRLTTY (or vice versa).

 > No other platform has this strange issue so I think the best approach would
 > be to add a Linux screen driver parameter. Doing it that way wouldn't, at
 > least for the moment, make it settable from the preferences menu.

I think this is feasible. People probably don't feel much need to toggle it
very often.

Another question then is could we find a way to keep braille glyphs
aligned on terminals that really support wide characters. I think this can be
solved separately.

-- 
Aura