[BRLTTY] Screen screen driver?

[Mario Lang]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

>>does the current screen patch/driver support unicode?  screen (since some 
>>4.0.x release) does support UTF-8 somehow.  
>
> No, it doesn't. I had a look at it once and think I know how to do it. I'll 
> have another look.
Maybe its more useful to invest the time into some framebuffer console emulator
support, which would essentially give us the same capabilities.

>>Would I be able to use more than 512 unicode characters at once if I were to 
>>use brltty with the screen driver?
>
> Probably, except they still wouldn't display on the actual screen.

That I know.  Which is yet another reason for prefering the fb terminal emulator
approach, since that way, even on-screen display could work.

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