[BRLTTY] Mapping a braille display input character to a computer-keyboard/browser character.

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Thu Sep 26 19:59:29 EDT 2013


[quoted lines by Siju Samuel on 2013/09/26 at 17:57 -0500]

>So just to confirm,  in my scenario of entering the text "ab" on a braille
>device,
>
>a is dot-1
>b is dot 1-2
>
>For letter "b", the brltty's   ONE  readKey()  will get the unicode (or
>brltty code) corresponding to dot-1-2  in an actual device (just one read) .
> Unlike the way i initially understood as it require two readKey() for the
>letter "b".

Yes, that's correct. To type the letter b, the user presses dots 1 and 2 at the 
very same time, and readKey() will deliver one, and only one, item to you.

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