[BRLTTY] Release 6.0 soon.

[John Covici]

Hi.  I need to stay on a kernel with long term support, right now I
have 4.14.90 -- anything you can do to  make this work -- 4.19 is not
an lts kernel as far as I know.

Thanks.

On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:23:01 -0500,
Dave Mielke wrote:
> 
> Finally, after two major delays, brltty-6.0 is just about ready. The crrrent
> plan is to release it in a couple of weeks, i.e. February 18 or shortly
> thereafter. Please, everyone who can, do test the latest development code as
> best you can so that we can do our best to ensure that 6.0 will be as problem
> free as possible.
> 
> The big feature in brltty-6.0 is its ability to read Unicode characters from a
> Linux text screen. This new capability also requires the use of a Linux 4.19
> (or later) kernel. The constraint of only being able to read at most 512 unique
> characters at a time has finally been eliminated. The 256 Unicode braille cell
> (pattern) characters are now correctly rendered without having to do any fancy
> font fiddling and without having to sacrifice 256 otherwise useful character
> definitions. We can finally read several languages without having to switch
> fonts. This new capability should also resolve a lot of problems for those who
> read languages like Mandarin and Cantonese which require many, many characters.
> 
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