[BRLTTY] Release 6.0 soon.

[Patrick ZAJDA]

Hello,

I would like to try BRLTTY 6.0 on Debian Stretch.

Could someone explain me how to compile it and have the same settings
the debian package provides?

I actualy use BRLTTY 5.6 from Stretch Backports repository when I try to
re-create a package frome the last source code I have an error about
python files.
Doing it using ./configure, make and sudo make install had break BRLTTY.

Thanks,

Patrick

Le 03/02/2019 à 18:23, Dave Mielke a écrit :
> 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.
>