brltty and fbdev

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

coscell at mail.batol.net, le Thu 08 Mar 2007 11:48:41 +0800, a écrit :
> Original words: 高生旺
> Correctly contracted patterns: k%'iz'_"
> Is it true in yours?

Ahaa.  There's something indeed: 高生旺 works fine with gb2312
contraction table, but not big5.  I checked what screen provides to
brltty, that's not big5! The 8th bit is trimmed down at wide character
start.  It hence looks like screen tries to do "smart" things with big5
but not gb2312, and grepping the source code seems to confirm this.

One solution I found is to just disable any codeset detection: in your
.screenrc , put the following lines:

encoding ISO8859-1 ISO8859-1
defencoding ISO8859-1

And then big5 should work fine.

Samuel