Hi. With the upcoming full unicode console support, I am wondering if we want to handle emojis in contracted braille mode?
The english case could be autogenerated from the unicode names I guess. But for other languages, we'd need a list of translations. Given that, brltty should probably autogenerate the contracted description inline, if a certain flag is set. For instance, \U1F5EA (🗪) is named "TWO SPEECH BUBBLES". A german translation of that might be "zwei Sprechblasen" which could be auto"contracted" to "⠵⠺⠩⠀⠂⠮⠃⠇⠁⠎⠉" while de-kurzschrift is active. Writing out all of these in special cti files seems very tedious and error prone. What do others thing? There is a 4 digit figure amount of characters that more or less fall into the category of symbols with elaborate descriptions. Some are emojis, but some are a bit more broad, like objects in general. It would be nice to have inline descriptions for these available, and contracted braille mode is the right vehicle for that. But defining all of them by hand seems like a bad idea. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
