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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:52:13 -0400
From:   Dave Mielke <Dave@mielke.cc>
To:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] have the vt console preserve unicode characters
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[quoted lines by Adam Borowski on 2018/06/19 at 15:09 +0200]

>You're thinking small.  That 256 possible values for Braille are easily
>encodable within the 512-glyph space (256 char + stolen fg brightness bit,
>another CGA peculiarity).  

Not at all. We braille users, especially when working with languages other than
English, need more than 256 non-braille characters. Even for those who can live
with just 256 non-braille characters, it's still a major pain having to come up
with a usable braille-capable font for every needed 256 non-braille characters
set. I can assure you, as an actual braille user, that the limitation has been
a very long-standing problem and it's a great relief that it's finally been
resolved.

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