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

From: Dave Mielke <Dave@mielke.cc>
To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] have the vt console preserve unicode characters
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:21:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180621022137.GB18453@beta.private.mielke.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180621014317.ebslk3gwvpq3k6sq@angband.pl>

[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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