[BRLTTY] speech-dispatcher and brltty

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/03/22 at 11:36 +1100]

>> brltty to be unicode-based became more important. We'll get back to it, though.
>
>I know this is a stupid question, but 

I don't believe there's any such thing as a stupid question. If any of us 
doesn't know something then it's always best to ask.

>what does this mean?

Brltty has historically always used eight-bit characters so it always had to be 
aware of the current host character set. This has become very limiting, 
expecially since modern operating systems maintain the screen content in 
Unicode. Unicode is a large character set which essentially includes every 
single character ever used in all languages. Linux has progressed far enough 
that it's even now not even possible to accurately back-translate what's on the 
screen to the host character set. The only truly reliable way for brltty to 
show you what's on the screen, therefore, is for it to work with unicode 
characters rather than host characters.

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