On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:05:19AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > Or explicitly define \uFFFD to something else. The uppercase e with acute > accent in the en_CA text table (which is good for English, French, German, > and > Italian), for example, is represented by all eight dots.
This makes that combination undesirable for this particular table, though I agree with Dave that it should be the default if the text table doesn't define a representation for \ufffd. > > >I still think question mark with a dot 7 or dot 8, defined in each table, is > >a > >good policy, but that's only my opinion. > > Welel, let's see what others have to say. In the end, of course, there's no > ideal answer. Back to the en_CA text table for a moment. The question mark > [dots 1456] is what it is. With dot 7 added it's an inverted question mark. > With dot 8 added it's a lowercase o with circumflex. With both dots 7 and 8 > added it's an uppercase o with circumflex. The latter two are what they are > because o with circumflex is dots 1456 in both French and Italian. which makes any variant of the question mark a less desirable choice. I agree there is no perfect solution here, particularly for text tables that define all 256 possibilities, which I suspect most, perhaps all of them, do. _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
