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At 05:07 PM 10/7/03 +0200, Kent Karlsson wrote:
> >A question about the issues already open: What is the justification
for
> >proposing to make Braille Lo?
Shortly before this came up as a "Public Review Issue", I suggested that
Braille character
Asmus said:
> In conclusion, it seems that the correct set of *default* properties for
> Braille would be determined by the needs of inserting Braille strings into
> other text (for educational manuals and similar specifications).
>
> As Marco has pointed out that means BIDI = L and I believe i
Kent Karlsson wrote:
The original model for these was that your text processing is done in
non-Braille, and on the last leg to a device, you would transcode the
regular text to a Braille sequence using a domain and
language specific
mapping. Having the codes in Unicode allows you to preserve
At 10:32 AM 10/7/03 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only justification mentioned so far for changing Braille from So to Lo
is to be able to use Braille in identifiers. I'm not sure why someone
whould want to use Braille in this way, for a start how would these
identifiers be translated into
> >A question about the issues already open: What is the justification
for
> >proposing to make Braille Lo?
Shortly before this came up as a "Public Review Issue", I suggested that
Braille characters should not be regarded as ignorable symbols when
collating texts. I.e. that they should have "lev
> Braille is probably used for a lot of scripts, maybe even *most* scripts
> used for modern languages - in Bhutan I know they use Braille for writing
> Dzongkha (Tibetan script).
And of course codings will map some Braille forms to symbols or punctuation - making
Lo inappropriate even if we were
On 06/10/2003 19:08, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Jony Rosenne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please note that Braille is used also for Hebrew. We use the same codes,
but
they are assigned a different meaning. The reader has to know or guess
which
lan
- Original Message -
From: "Jony Rosenne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Please note that Braille is used also for Hebrew. We use the same codes,
but
> they are assigned a different meaning. The reader has to know or guess
which
> language it is.
>
> I don't remember whether Hebrew Braille is writ
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