[BRLTTY] can't read screen content

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Samuel Thibault (2026/05/22 11:16 +0200):
> Sébastien Hinderer, le ven. 22 mai 2026 11:10:30 +0200, a ecrit:
> > An, independently of apotential kernel bug, Newt seems to require that
> > the terminal is put in non-UTF-8 mode to do its drawings,
>
> What makes you think that precisely?

It's what is done in XenServer's installer, see

See line 167 of the init file in the xenserver/host-installer GitHub
repository, and apologies for not being able to produce a direct URL.

Maybe this is because this installer does not use the very last released
version of newt, although it did not seem clear whether there has
actually been a *released* verison more recent than the one used by
XenServer's installer.

> Newt can draw everything in UTF-8 with unicode characters, and the
> installer does support some languages which cannot be supported without
> utf8 (e.g. japanese, chinese, etc.)

Yeah it makes sense. I don't knowthen why they insist to turn UTF-8
off.

Seb.