[BRLTTY] Type using DOT keys

payman shaykhmehdi payman.shaykhmehdi at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 03:20:56 EST 2016


I am using arabic text table. ar.ttb has DOT1 maped to [DIGIT ONE], [LATTIN
CAPITAL LETTER A], [LATIN SMALL LETTER A] and [ARRABIC LETTER ALEF]. Is it
standard to have one-to-many mapping in these tables? How these conflicts
are handled in brltty for arabic for example?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by payman shaykhmehdi on 2016/01/11 at 12:32 +0330]
>
> >Logging with -ldebug,brlkeys,inpkts, here is the log message for pressing
> >and releasing of Dot1 key :
> >
> >brltty : brl key press : Dot1 (Ctx:2 Grp:0 Num:1) -> NOOP (Cmd:000000)
> >brltty : brl key release : Dot1 (Ctx:2 Grp:0 Num:1) -> PASSDOTS
> (Cmd:002201)
> >brltty : command: 000000 (NOOP: do nothing)
> >brltty : command: 002201 (PASSDOTS: type braille dots [1])
>
> That looks good.
>
> Do you have a text table defined? Does it have a mapping for just dot 1
> (presumably the letter a)? A good way to test this is to check if output is
> working. Does your braille display show just dot 1 for the letter a?
>
> Are you using Linux? If so, are you running brltty as root? If it's not
> running
> as root then it may not be able to insert characters.
>
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