[BRLTTY] Input from a physical keyboard

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2022/07/09 at 13:28 +0200]

>On Android you can conect a physical bluetooth keyboard, and use it for
>input. If input is set to Google keyboard, the physical keyboard works
>perfectly well.
>If input is set to BRLTTY, however, the selected keyboard layout isn't
>honored, which means that if I press the key to the right of the letter
>l, with Norwegian keyboad layout is selected, semicolon is produced,
>and not the Norwegian letter ø, as expected.

Yes, that's predictable. It's because the layout is a Google Keyboard setting - not a global settinf. Also, brltty has no control over how the external keyboard behaves. I'll have a look to see if brltty can support setting the external keyboard layout.

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