Anyway to get brltty to display the character correctly -- at least for this one?
Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:34 -0500] > > >hmmm, if I type all 8 dots, it comes out a question mark instead of all > >8 dots -- what am I doing wrong? > > Probably nothing. By pressing all eight dots, you're entering the desired > character. The system then tries to display that character. The problem is > that > your currently selected font probably doesn't contain that character, which > means that the system doesn't know which glyph to present on the screen for > it. > When brltty encounters an unmapped Unicode character, it presents it as a > question mark. > > You may be wondering why any given font wouldn't contain all of the > characters. > The reason is that a monitor, when in text mode, only supports at most 512 > glyphs. This means that screen font writers do their best to decide which 512 > characters would be the most useful, and, of course, that may mean not > including your favourite character. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > EMail: d...@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.com/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com _______________________________________________ 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
