Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:21:37 -0400 | From | Dave Mielke <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] have the vt console preserve unicode characters |
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[quoted lines by Adam Borowski on 2018/06/21 at 03:43 +0200]
>It's meant for displaying braille to _sighted_ people. And in real world, >the main [ab]use is a way to show images that won't get corrupted by >proportional fonts. :-þ
It's not abuse at all. I often use U+28xx to show sighted people what the braille for something looks like. I often need to do this when, for example, I need them to comapre what I'm showing them to what's on an actual braille display. U+28xx is the only way for me to do this without a lengthy description containing sequences of dot number combinations.
Also, U+28xx is the only reasonable way to share braille music between people who use different languages.
>The primary users would be: >* people who want symbols uncorrupted (especially if their language uses a > non-latin script) >* CJK people (as discussed below)
Again, that's not true. Why aren't braille users included in this list? After all, it's we who motivated this enhancement. I guess actual blind people mustn't count just because there are relatively fewer of us. :-(
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