Hi, Nicolas Pitre (2019/09/28 16:00 -0400): > On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, Shérab wrote: > > > It is perhaps something one just has to live with, I don't know. Just > > trying to share some thoughts here. Perhaps we should communicate > > towards our sighted colleagues that these unicode characters are simply > > not practical to use for us visually impaired. After all, the idea of > > lines of code not longer than 80 characters because of braille displays > > has become rather well known so why not do something similar about the > > use of unicode characters in programming or so? > > I'd advise against this. To the contrary, unicode usage should be > encouraged as much as possible. > > Those unicode characters are at last a universal standard way to > communicate which also includes emojis etc. The alternative to emojis > and special characters is embedded images which are not standardized at > all, and worse are completely inaccessible.
Sure. It's just that in the context of programming the choice is rather between Unicode and ASCII, I don't think images are an option in htat particular context, but I very much agree with what you are writing in the general case. > We might have alignment issues with unicode description and such, but > that's something for brltty and similar tools to solve. Working > around this issue by asking other > people not to use unicode is not a good solution. > > Wrt brltty: it might be possible to quickly toggle between two modes, > just like 6/8-dot braille, where one of these modes has unicode chars > occupy their expected width using some replacement character > representation (e.g. \alpha could be an a with dot 8 blinking or the > like) and another mode where such character are spelled out using their > unicode description. This way you get both the presentation alignment > and the description but just not simultaneously. That indeed seems a good solution to me. At least one worth experimenting. Shérab. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
