[brailleblaster] Re: Actual support for UTF
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 09:18:23 -0500
No. A dot pattern is required.
John
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 01:11:39PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> John.
>
> Can the character definition specify a new ASCII value in place of the UTF
> one rather than a dot pattern? It might make it simpler since some of the
> higher UTF characters are actually just different ways of representing common
> characters, dollar sign and open double quote for example.
>
>
> Keith Creasy
> Software Developer
> American Printing House for the Blind
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>
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> The ueb tables have a lot of these Unicode characters, probably with
> different dot patterns. I'll be glad to put an updated chardefs.cti table in
> the repository. The new characters should be added to the end.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 12:27:44PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> > After thinking about the bullet char I think we need someone to add a
> > character definition table for UTF. There are a few that have been added to
> > chardefs.cti but it doesn't really look like anyone has taken a systematic
> > approach to adding the commonly used U.S. english chars above 0X07f. I
> > guess we can continue to add them peacemeal but I think a couple of days of
> > focused work would avoid most of that.
> >
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
> > Keith Creasy
> > Software Developer
> > American Printing House for the Blind
> > KCreasy@xxxxxxx
> > Phone: 502.895.2405
> > Skype: keith537
> >
>
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