[BRLTTY] Bad characters, brltty restart is needed

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Nov 19 10:23:35 EST 2007


Jan Buchal, le Mon 19 Nov 2007 15:43:17 +0100, a écrit :
> >>>>> "ST" == Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:
> 
>     ST> Jan Buchal, le Mon 19 Nov 2007 09:09:03 +0100, a écrit :
>     >> >>>>> "ST" == Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
>     >> writes:
>     >> 
>     ST> Hi, Jan Buchal, le Sun 18 Nov 2007 18:39:19 +0100, a écrit :
>     >> >> long time I have follow problem. If I start my computer and
>     >> login >> into textconsole several characters shows brltty wrong.
>     >> 
>     ST> What kind of characters? Something like "all but non-ascii
>     ST> characters", or something else?
>     >> non-ascii. First brltty shows iso1 only I think, after restart
>     >> shows others too. One sample: r with caron is shows as ? after
>     >> restart is correct already.
> 
>     ST> Ok, it looks like it's because your brltty, when automatically
>     ST> started, inherits a non-czech locale. Could you try to set LANG
>     ST> to your czech locale in the launch script?
> Yes, it works. I added export LC_ALL=cs_cz into /etc/init.d/brltty
> script. Is it a right way?

Unfortunately, that's the right way for now, yes.

Dave, the table format should really be extended to include its charset
name instead of relying on the locale to be properly set.

Samuel


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