[BRLTTY] Removing --disable-... options.

[Erik Heil]

Hi their.
This is not related to eliminating --disable directives in the Configure
script. Rather, it is a feature suggestion. Would it make sense to at some
point use a variant of UTF-8 as the default character set? At least in
Western (ISO-89-511) character sets, they seem to be deprecated in favor
of their UTF-8 counterparts. I know for instance, that in Debian at least,
UTF-8 is the default character set for new installs. Should the user want
to use others though, they are of course available.

--Erik


On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Mario Lang wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:09:06 +0200
> From: Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org>
> Reply-To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
>     <brltty at mielke.cc>
> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
>     <brltty at mielke.cc>
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Removing --disable-... options.
>
> Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:
>
> > Brltty's configure script currently supports 22 --disable-... options. I
> > think the time has come to remove a number of them. My initial
> > proposal is that:
> >
> > And that we remove these:
> >
> >   --disable-preferences-menu    the preferences menu
> >   --disable-table-selection     text/attribute/contraction table selection in
> >   --disable-learn-mode          interactive command learn mode
>
> I am fine with those.
>
> >   --disable-contracted-braille  in-line contracted braille
> >   --disable-beeper-support      support for the console tone generator
> >   --disable-pcm-support         support for soundcard digital audio
> >   --disable-midi-support        support for the Musical Instrument Digital
> >   --disable-fm-support          support for the soundcard synthesizer
> >   --disable-pm-configfile       user customization of Papenmeier driver
>
> From an installer perspective, I'd like to keep those, since they are
> not very useful for new users and/or users just installing a new system.
> I dont see contracted braille very useful in that context, and
> MIDI/FM playback is something the environment probably doesnt support.
> pm-configfile is also pretty useless in an installer context,
> especially since it adds a complete parser framework to the code.
>
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