[BRLTTY] Typing all characters Focus 40

[Frans-Willem Post]

Hello all,

Thanks to Samuel on this list, I have at least learned of the cause of 
this problem, and a possible workaround. I will quote the relevant 
portions from his off-list advice.

 > Can ë be typed directly on your keyboard, or do you need e.g. to 
press a dead-diaeresis, then e? That's a current shortcoming of 
keysimulation that they simulate only one keypress (possibly with 
modifiers).

It was indeed a dead-key combo, but that was not the problem. It was not 
listed in the X-keymap shown by 'xmodmap -pke'.

 > But perhaps it's [not] available as direct key? xmodmap -pke would tell

This was indeed the case. In my X-environment, I can not type the 
characters not listed in the keymap, but on a real TTY-console, I can.

Thank you for helping me understand,

Frans-Willem Post
The Netherlands


On 18-08-17 20:40, Frans-Willem Post wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Using BRLTTY 5.3.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.3, with Orca 3.18.2 and a FS Focus 
> 40 Blue over USB.
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to type ALL characters from my 
> braille table using the dots 1-8 on the display?
>
> I use my own table, based on the standard European table from 
> http://www.braille.ch/eb-erl-g.htm
>
> For most characters this works: simple letters, capital letters, 
> digits. I can even type some accented characters, but not all.
>
> For example: I can type 'a' using Dot1, 'A' using Dot1+Dot7, '1' using 
> Dot1+Dot6 and 'á' using Dot1+Dot6+Dot8 - but not 'ë' using 
> Dot1+Dot2+Dot4+Dot6+Dot8. Why not?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Frans-Willem Post
> The Netherlands
>
>