Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 01:30:12AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > >> >There are other things like certain symbols are kind of duplicated in >> >Unicode. >> >But I cant think of any right now, I'd need to check. > > As I remember, accented letters are among these: there are so-called > "combining" characters that allow the letter and the accent to be specified > separately, as well as characters that represent the accented letters as > single, combined entities.
Well, a separate character would mean that one representation uses more cells than another, right? Normalising that sounds wrong. > One solution to this is to "normalize" the Unicode string before it reaches > the braille translation functions, so that only one representation is ever > used for those characters. If DESCCHAR still returns the original character value, I agree. If not, I disagree... DESCCHAR should always report the actual character... -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
