[BRLTTY] Typing/reading braille combinations

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Mon Apr 17 20:39:56 EDT 2006


On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Raoul MEGELAS, le Sun 16 Apr 2006 22:32:49 +0200, a écrit :
> > > The problem here is that the _keyboard_ doesn't report the keypress,
> > > because it is physically limited.
> > 
> > here i can make a chord with jbn then lkm
> > points 123 first then 456. with this combination i think we could go.
> > in other words one char = 2 chord strokes. Isn't it?
> 
> Well, why not. But this needs to be implemented in the kernel. Not so
> easy.

Is the kernel really the best place for braille capture and map?

Even X-Windows grabs raw key events and does its own mapping outside the 
kernel.


Nicolas


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