Mario Lang, le Sat 09 Aug 2008 10:55:00 +0200, a écrit : > 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.
Yes and no. The combining character doesn't take room on the screen. So for instance é (e with acute accent) and é (e + combining acute accent), although different strings, normalize to the same, and for a good reason: they appear exactly the same on my screen, occupying only one column. > > 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... I agree with you. The normalization should only happen just before the output. Samuel _______________________________________________ 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
