[BRLTTY] Low-level BrlAPI questions

[Samuel Thibault]

Aura Kelloniemi, le mar. 20 avril 2021 16:24:56 +0300, a ecrit:
> On 2021-04-20 at 14:39 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>  > Aura Kelloniemi, le mar. 20 avril 2021 15:26:53 +0300, a ecrit:
>  > They are completed with 0xff for and and 0x00 for or.
> 
> This probably means, than when text ends, the rest of the display is padded
> with spaces, and if space is defined to be something else than an empty cell,
> this pattern will fill the end of the display.

We could instead fill with U+2800?

>  > If they were not, it would be a terrible mess, clients would have to
>  > rewrite each time one switches focus, etc.
> 
> Can an application force a complete refresh? I sometimes feel a need for this
> after a bluetooth conection issue.

It shouldn't have to care (and the brlapi layer will optimize it away
anyway). If a refresh is missing it is a brltty core issue.

Samuel