[BRLTTY] Newbie questions to help me make a Slint installer blind friendly.

[Didier Spaier]

Thanks for your answer, Dave.

On 20/11/2014 16:38, Dave Mielke wrote:
 > [quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2014/11/17 at 12:36 +0100]
 >> 2. Can brltty be used in a framebuffer?
 >
 > I should know the answer to this question, but I don't.
Samuel answered, so we both know ;)

 >> 4. Can brltty be used with in an UTF8 context? Under what conditions and
 >>   with which limitations?
 > Yes. It honours the configured locale of the system. If the locale 
includes the
 > .UTF-8 part then it'll work.
So we can set LANG to locale name ending in utf.8, good.

But what about the keyboard setting? I ask because for Russian we set the
kernel keymap to "ruwin_cplk-UTF-8". I just had a look to the file
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ruwin_cplk-UTF-8.map.gz
and I see that many keypresses (not surprisingly) translate to UTF-8
encoded characters, for instance:
altgr        keycode  16 =     U+0439
I assume that as long as an UTF-8 locale is used the character will be
properly recognized and processed when coming from a braille device, as
the driver will output the same scancodes as a regular keyboard.
But I want to be 100% sure. Can someone confirm?

Best regards,
Didier