[BRLTTY] can't read screen content

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Fri May 22 09:59:47 UTC 2026


[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2026/05/22 at 11:44 +0200]

>The latest release was last year. In the meanwhile the kernel can have
>broken its support. 

I doubt it. Perhaps you can verify with a later kernel (I'm currently using 6.19.9). What's supposed to happen is that a read of vcsu returns ENODATA if the vt isn't in unicode mode.

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