[BRLTTY] Problem with terminus font

Didier Spaier didier at slint.fr
Sat Feb 6 18:46:32 EST 2016


On 07/02/2016 00:25, Samuel Thibault wrote:

>> By the way, am I correctly presuming that brltty needs icu enabled if
>> the console is in UTF-8 mode?
>
> icu is only needed for some character description and line breaking
> things. It is really not strictly needed for working in utf-8 mode.
> Debian has never enabled icu use for its utf-8-enabled installer.

That's good news! the MO file are lighter when using a 8 bit encoding
especially for some languages, but OTOH I won't have to run iconv on the
PO files and this allows translators to use characters like typographic
quotes and e.g. … (U+2024) instead of ... as some do.

Cheers, Didier


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