Hi, On 2022-01-28 at 11:27 -0500, Dave Mielke <[email protected]> wrote: > [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2022/01/28 at 16:30 +0200] > >The option would allow removing paddig space after all multi-column > >characters. This is necessary for people reading Asian text.
> Actually, no. That change was actually specifically made for those who read > Chinese. Having those kernel-inserted spaces wastes a lot of braille display > space, makes the braille rather difficult to read, and prevents contractions > from working. We "western" people tend to be a little arrogant, always > tghinking that we know what's best for others. Maybe you misunderstood my message. I want to make the current behaviour configurable so that both the old and the new behaviour are available. I don't want to make things more difficult to anybody (including people using Asian languages and myself). My point absolutely is not to tell anybody what is best for them. As can be seen from my message, I totally understand the need of stripping away padding spaces added by Linux – for people who read languages that utilize wide characters. There are (probably) many BRLTTY users who want to have their tables well-aligned even in environments where there are wide characters. It does not matter which group is a majority (Asian language readers or people interested in table alignment). We don't need to choose which group to serve, because we can easily serve both – by adding a configuration option. Please also note, that not all wide characters are letters – many are emojis and other symbols. These are the symbols that caused me misalignment issues (before I patched BRLTTY and removed the space-stripping feature which I do not need). -- Aura _______________________________________________ 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
