[BRLTTY] [slight off-topic] Computer Braille on Android

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Vincent LE GOFF on 2025/05/26 at 11:56 +0200]

>I fail to find a setting to set my Braille table to computer
>(dot-8). It's consistently, somewhat maddeningly in g1 (6 dots). I only seem
>to have the setting to toggle between g1 and g2 (no computer Braille mode).
>I'm not sure why (I'm using the French Braille table, which might be the
>issue, 

I just checked this out. Yes, TalkBack does offer 8-dot French computer braille. Here's what you need to do:

Open TalkBack's Actions screen and tap on Braille Settings. I'm sure you already know this. In there, you've probably tried using the Preferred Reading Language and Preferred Typing Language settings, but both of those only let you select from whichever languages have been activated. There's a setting just above those two called Languages, and you need to go there, first.

On the Languages screen, you'll see the languages that have been activated so far, and, at the bottom, you'll find Add A Language. Go there. On that screen, if I navigate down to French and tap, it offers me these two tables:

   French (I assume this to be French literary braille)
   French 8-Dot Computer Braille

Add the second table and you should then be able to select it as your preferred reading and/or typing languages.

>if there's indeed access to the configuration through
>the file system, do let me know. 

No, it doesn't look like there's a way.

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