[BRLTTY] can't read screen content

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri May 22 07:53:14 UTC 2026


Hello,

Sébastien Hinderer, le ven. 22 mai 2026 07:19:59 +0200, a ecrit:
> By the way: am I correct that BRLTTY has no way to know dynamically
> whether the console is in UTF-8 mode or not?

It is IUTF8 in the termios c_iflags, but that should only be relevant
for console input, not for output, that shouldn't be changing the way
/dev/vcsa reports characters, so that's most probably just a bug in the
kernel.

Samuel


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