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Unicode characters are not displayed on the Braille display #533

Open JAWS-test opened 3 years ago

JAWS-test commented 3 years ago

Summary

Go to https://codepen.io/jaws-test/pen/abJqgJM
Read the line: "This is a printer!"

Expected result

Unicode characters are displayed on the Braille display with their text (which is output acoustically)

Actual result

On the Braille display, most Unicode characters are displayed as spaces

See also: https://github.com/w3c/css-a11y/issues/17#issuecomment-850935211

Additional Information

JAWS version and build number

current and older JAWS version

Operating System and version

Windows 10

Browser and version:

current and older versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, IE 11

stevefaulkner commented 1 year ago

tested with JAWS 2023 June update and can reproduce test case