On 2022-02-01 at 20:26 -0500, Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, Dave Mielke wrote: > > And what about my position that the default should be the way it is now? I > > want to make it easy for the actual language users.
> Those users certainly have a braille table with definitions for all the > unicode characters they may encounter. According to Dave, users of Chinise braille at least always use contraction. I don't know about other Asian languages. > I think the default should be for wide characters that have no braille > representation (currently represented by a question mark) to span 2 > cells with blank padding by default. At least in that case the total > spacing will be right and things will properly align vertically. I'm against this. I have special braille glyphs for many emojis, but I still want the padding space (inserted by Linux) to be present after them. I'd like to have a separate setting for removing padding spaces, and I wish that this toggle does not affect BRLTTY's behaviour otherwise. -- 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
