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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Dave,
> Comments are a good idea. However, any character used as a comment indicator
> will present problems, since it could be used in some language. Perhaps the
> # could indicate a comment only if it is the very first character in a line
> or of it follows the number, separated from it by a space or tab. If a
> source string has # as its first character it can be indented a space or
> two. That would mean that leading spaces on a line would be ignored.

I'd suggest supporting a dot pattern representation directly instead of 
relying on ascii correspondance which may well be different from one braille 
table to another, especially for symbols outside of the standard alphabet.


Nicolas