[BRLTTY] Typing in UEB

[Devin Prater]

Is there a reason one cannot type in contracted braille? Users will expect
that, particularly on Android, particularly if they're switching from iOS.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:31 PM Jon McLaughlin <jon at jpmrc.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info. I've been meaning to learn computer braille. I guess
> now is my opportunity :-)
>
> > On Aug 18, 2021, at 9:07 AM, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> >
> > [quoted lines by Jon McLaughlin on 2021/08/16 at 08:07 -0600]
> >
> >> I've got BRLTTY running on a raspberry PI. I got it to output in UEB
> but I cannot figure out how to switch the inputs into UEB.
> >
> > You can't because brltty doesn't (yet) support contracted braille input.
> >
> >> I have looked in the text preference and it has options for EN and
> EN-US but is I go to the login screen and type dots 23 I get it translated
> to a ueb number two with the leading number sign and it doesn't seem to
> matter which of those two I choose,
> >
> > The term "text table", as used within brltty, means computer braille.
> While output can be switched between computer braille and contracted
> braille, input is always in computer braille (according to the currently
> selected text table).
> >
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