[BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by covici at ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 23:45 -0500]
> 
> >I did a hexdump of the file to get the character.  What is in my file
> >wit the section sign is actually a7c2 -- all characters seem to be two
> >bytes.
> 
> a7c2 (which really should be read c2a7 since Intel/AMD processors are little 
> endian) is UTF-8 for 00A7, so what you have are section signs encoded in UTF-8.
> 
> >I do have unicode=yes in my /etc/rc.conf, so it is supported for
> >keyboards and screens.
> 
> So now we need to understand the next step. How are you transferring what's in 
> your file to the screen, and what's telling you that what's on your screen, 
> after you do that, are 8bc3 characters?
I again dumped a file after typing all 8 dots, that is what I did.  So I
really don't know what is on the screen except a question mark, just
what is in the files.

> 
> >But I have had this all along and its something different about brltty
> >between 4.5 and 5.0 which I am wondering about.
> 
> I understand, and I'm not ultimately doubting you, but I also make absolutely 
> no assumptions when trying to understand a problem.
> 
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