[Feature request]: Support Braille characters

[marchbox]

What feature are you proposing?

I used MonoLisa as the font for my terminal (Rio). Some of the tools I run in terminal use braille characters for spinner, I suspect they come from packages like this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cli-spinner. The issue I'm having is that, the fonts I've found that supports braille glyphs are not monospaced, or at least not the same width as MonoLisa, so when I use a terminal window manager (e.g. Zellij) and run those tools in one of the panes, the braille glyphs cause the pane divider misaligned (I was using Apple Braille in the screenshot):

I would be nice to have braille support in MonoLisa.

[sonulohani]

You can use nerd font: https://www.monolisa.dev/faq#how-to-enable-nerd-fonts-with-monolisa

[marchbox]

@sonulohani Thank you! I finally got some time to try all the options out. My terminal (Rio) does support fallback fonts, but unfortunately none of the options worked, either the fallback font didn't support Braille glyphs or the glyphs didn't work well with Monolisa. I didn't want to go the patch path because I didn't want to modify the font file.

Would still be nice to see Monolisa supporting Braille glyphs. Honestly, I do not like the idea of using Braille characters to indicate progress since it's just wrong and likely bad for accessibility, but seems the tool creators can't help themselves.

[bebraw]

Here's how it was done for Nerd Fonts: ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#837 .

[MarcusSterz]

There will be Braille support in the upcoming version.