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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/4] have the vt console preserve unicode characters
[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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