[BRLTTY] can't read screen content

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 21 May 2026, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Small status update on this. I think the escape sequence mentionned
> previously, ^[%@, switches the console in non-UTF-8 mode. I assume this
> changes the format of /dev/vcsa to something BRLTTY cannot read any
> longer.
> 
> Is that correct? If so, is there a way to detect whether the
> console is or is not in UTF-8 mode and for BRLTTY to cope with both
> situations?

Quick test - add this to your brltty.conf file:

screen-parameters lx:unicode=no

If this works, this is not a final solution, just a workaround.


Nicolas