[BRLTTY] speech-dispatcher and brltty

[Daniel Dalton]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [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.

Thanks.

>> 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.

I see.
Thanks for explaining that. I'll do some more research as well.

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Daniel Dalton

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