Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Oh, that makes good sense then. Thanks for explaining. >> > 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. I.e., in a table, which sort of brings us back to Dave's equivalence idea. -- 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
