[BRLTTY] brltty 6.0 testing report

高生旺 coscell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 07:53:07 EST 2019


Well, many thanks for your illustration.
For lynx and vim or pico, do you have any good idea?

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> 高生旺, le mar. 12 févr. 2019 19:24:33 +0800, a ecrit:
>> Are we talking the same thing?
>> The webpage anounce its charset = big5.
>> But brltty can only read utf-8.
>
> Brltty does not read utf-8, it does not need to know how it is encoded,
> it just reads unicode codepoints from vcsu.
>
>> Has any solution for this problem?
>
> Normally what you would just do is make the application (web browser,
> editor, etc.) properly consider the encoding of the page, and then just
> emit utf-8 to give it to the kernel where it'll be translated to unicode
> codepoints that brltty will read.
>
> I'm aware that to be able to display chinese on the real screen you
> would use zhcon and such. But for braille output, you do not need this,
> you can just make applications emit utf-8 as appropriate.
>
> Samuel
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