[BRLTTY] Speech-dispatcher crashes when encountering semi-graphical characters

Hermann meinelisten at onlinehome.de
Mon Mar 24 09:01:50 EDT 2008


am Mo 24. Mär 2008 um 13:35:15 schrieb Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc>:
> [quoted lines by Hermann on 2008/03/24 at 11:11 +0100]
> 
> >I tested the same with another SD module, and it must be indeed a problem with SD and the Espeak module. Switching to 
> >Espeak-generic works.
> >However: This happens only in brltty with SD, all other apps I use with SD are OK (SBL, Speakup, Yasr and speechd-el, 
> >the interface to Emacs). So I think the brltty team should have some thoughts about this too.
> 
> Someone also reported that orca in conjunction with Gnome-terminal causes the 
> SD crash. One common property between brltty and orca is that both work with 
> Unicode whereas my guess is that the other applications work with the host 
> character set. Since the screen font can contain up to 512 characters whereas 
> the host character set typically only contain 256, it's possible that 
> unicod-based 

If this is true, then the command:
setfont
or
consolechars -d
should solve this, but I tried and it didn't.
Hermann


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