[BRLTTY] Almost newbie question: Configuring brltty?

[rjaquiss at earthlink.net]

Hello Dave:

     Thank you for the help. As it turns out I could not get the localectl
program to run. It wouldn't run with sudo or when I used su.
After talking with a local technician, I found out about the file
/etc/locale.gen
I used an editor to remove the # from the beginning of the line for
en_US.UTF-8. I also commented out the en_GB line.
I ended up finding the file /etc/locale.conf.
After editing the second line on the file and rebooting the braille display
is working the way I want.
Orca has gone quiet so I now have to find out why. The braille display
works, and since I use terminal mode almost all the time, I can still use
the machine.
Have a great day.

Regards,
Robert

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Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Almost newbie question: Configuring brltty?

[quoted lines by rjaquiss at earthlink.net on 2026/05/12 at 22:28 -0600]

>This time when I installed brltty, the displayed characters are not 
>what I expected. The numerals include dot 6. For example 1 is dots 1-6, 
>2 is dots
>1-2-6 etc. The less than sign is dots 2-3-6 etc.

Brltty uses your system's current locale to decide which text table to use.
If you're in the US then your locale should be en_US.UTF-8, but it looks
like your lovale is probably set to en_GB.UTF-8. To find out what your
system's locale is, what does this command say?

   echo $LANG

To change it to your US locale, run this command as root and then reboot:

   localectl set-locale en_US.UTF-8

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