[BRLTTY] FWD: Re: A dos character problem

Lars Bjørndal lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no
Wed May 16 16:21:55 EDT 2007


Hello!
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:
...

> On the short run, you have to stick to 8bit: since your DOS application
> uses CP850 as character set, then load the cp850 font, so that Linux
> will be able to display all characters on the screen and express them in
> /dev/vcsa. Then, write a CP850 braille table with the braille patterns
> you'd like to see. Finally, run brltty in a CP850 locale: add for
> instance
> no_NL.CP850 CP850
> to your /etc/locale.gen, and re-run locale-gen. Then run brltty this
> way:
>
> LC_CTYPE=no_NL.CP850 brltty ...

The locale-gen command is not provided on the Fedora system. Do you
know of an equivalent?

Lars


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