[BRLTTY] a simple question

[RAoul Mégélas]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:54:53 +0200
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> a écrit:


> Dave Mielke, le Tue 11 Aug 2009 11:47:46 -0400, a =E9crit :
> > The normal operation of BRLTTY doesn't rely at all on libiconv, so you do=
> > n't =
> > need to worry about that.

> Yes, brltty can fallback to its own conversion routine.  However, it
> does so only for latin1, cp437 and cp850. In all other cases (e.g.
> latin2 or 9, utf-8), convertCharToWchar will always return WEOF.  Maybe
> we should keep a fallback that assumes ASCII coding, to at least get
> that properly converted?  (or perhaps even latin1).
> 
> Samuel

Hello Samuel

even with ISO8859-1 with libiconv undefined, brltty displays garbage
(that was my problem on FreeBSD, before finding this point),
and this fallback would permit to run brltty even without libiconv
(is not this interesting for an installer)?

Best regards

Raoul
rmgls at free.Fr