On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 04:10:07PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, S. Massy wrote: > > > This is beyond the scope of this thread but I sometimes feel like it's > > time to add two more dots to displays for a total of ten: this would > > give us more flexibility to keep up with new Unicode characters. > > We may blink dots 7 and 8 for that. If, say, dot 7 blinks then this is > the equivalent of dot 9 being active. Same for dot 8 representing dot > 10. And the time period may preserve the actual dot 7/8 state. For > example, if dot 7 is on 3/4 of the time and off 1/4 of the time, that > means dot 7 is normally set when not blinking. And if it is on 1/4 and > off 3/4 of the time then it is normally unset. That's a very clever solution but I wonder how practical that would be at regular reading speed. Perhaps if we increased the blinking rate sufficiently it might work...
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