[BRLTTY] Input from a physical keyboard

[Lars Bjørndal]

Thank you. Please note, in case it's useful information for you: Some versions ago, with TalkBack on, I had the same problem also with GBoard (Google keyboard). I repported the bug, and it became fixed.

Lars


On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 02:56:16PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [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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