brltty and fbdev

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Feb 20 09:33:41 UTC 2007


coscell at mail.batol.net, le Tue 20 Feb 2007 17:27:29 +0800, a écrit :
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Coscell, can't you just use a BIG5 locale on plain text console? Big5
> > contraction table should work fine in such case.
> Yes, I can do so. But it has two disadvantages:
> 1. I can't demostrate my operations to my sighted leagues.
> 2. I can't use Chinese word input software like gcin, etc.

Yes, these are issues, but as I said in a earlier thread there's no
easy solution for now, we'd probably better just release 3.8 and then
work on unicode support, which will permit to read chinese & such from
gnome-terminal at least (and that would be required for accessing fbdev
anyway).

Samuel




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