[BRLTTY] can't read screen content

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hey Samuel, good to read you,

> 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.

OK. I was wondering whether it won't affect the Debian Installer too,
though. Because it is also using newt, right?

An, independently of apotential kernel bug, Newt seems to require that
the terminal is put in non-UTF-8 mode to do its drawings, which does not
feel very future-proof. Not even mentionning that newt is unmaintained.
Is there any plan for the Debian Installer to switch to another tooklit
for its text backend?

Seb.

> Samuel
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