[BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

ahhh you are probably correct, I will check that out and see what
happens -- Thanks so much for sticking with me.

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by covici at ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/06 at 08:18 -0500]
> 
> >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.
> 
> Now that I know you're using hexdump to see what the characters are, I now also 
> understand the 8BC3. Again, since Intel/AMD are little endian processors, this 
> needs to be read as c38b, which is the UTF-8 encoding for 00CB, and that's an 
> uppercase E with a diaeresis accent. This should sound familiar as we've 
> already learned that the en-nabcc text table represents an uppercase E with a 
> diaeresis accent as all eight dots. I'm now assuming, therefore, that it's the 
> uppercase E with a diaeresis accent that isn't in your currently selected font.
> 
> So everything is occurring as expected, including the presenting of a question 
> mark on your braille device. Nothing has changed on your system, the relevant 
> code hasn't changed within brltty, and yet something has changed. I'm convinced 
> that the answer has to be which text table was/is being used.
> 
> If you don't specify the text table then the default is to autoselect it based 
> on your system's locale. In your case, text table autoselection would result in 
> the en_US text table. If autoselection fails then the built-in text table, 
> which is en-nabcc (unless you've explicitly configured it), is used. It's also 
> reasonably predictable that, if you're explicitly specifying the text table, 
> then you'd pick either of these (en_US or en-nabcc).
> 
> So I checked out the en_US text table. In that one, all eight dots is - you 
> guessed it - the section sign. So my current conclusion, which could be wrong, 
> is that, while you're using the en-nabcc text table now, you were using the 
> en_US text table then.
> 
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