Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-06 Thread covici
Yep, that did it, thanks so much. cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > ahhh you are probably correct, I will check that out and see what > happens -- Thanks so much for sticking with me. > > Dave Mielke wrote: > > > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/06 at 08:18 -0500] > > > > >I aga

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-06 Thread covici
ahhh you are probably correct, I will check that out and see what happens -- Thanks so much for sticking with me. Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/06 at 08:18 -0500] > > >I again dumped a file after typing all 8 dots, that is what I did. So I > >really don

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-06 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/06 at 08:18 -0500] >I again dumped a file after typing all 8 dots, that is what I did. So I >really don't know what is on the screen except a question mark, just >what is in the files. Now that I know you're using hexdump to see what the characte

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-06 Thread covici
Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 23:45 -0500] > > >I did a hexdump of the file to get the character. What is in my file > >wit the section sign is actually a7c2 -- all characters seem to be two > >bytes. > > a7c2 (which really should be read c2a7 si

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-06 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 23:45 -0500] >I did a hexdump of the file to get the character. What is in my file >wit the section sign is actually a7c2 -- all characters seem to be two >bytes. a7c2 (which really should be read c2a7 since Intel/AMD processors are little

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread covici
I did a hexdump of the file to get the character. What is in my file wit the section sign is actually a7c2 -- all characters seem to be two bytes. I do have unicode=yes in my /etc/rc.conf, so it is supported for keyboards and screens. But I have had this all along and its something different about

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 20:59 -0500] >The character I get is 0x8bc3, whereas before it was that section sign >and it put up all 8 dots -- it is possible I was using a different text >table, I can't find out now, however. How are you determining that the character

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread covici
Any documentation? Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 17:09 -0500] > > >OK, sounds interesting. I have never used it, so what languages can > >you use with it? Could you use perl or something simple? > > BrlAPI bindings have currently been implement

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread covici
The character I get is 0x8bc3, whereas before it was that section sign and it put up all 8 dots -- it is possible I was using a different text table, I can't find out now, however. Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 18:11 -0500] > > >But what I am tryi

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 17:09 -0500] >OK, sounds interesting. I have never used it, so what languages can >you use with it? Could you use perl or something simple? BrlAPI bindings have currently been implemented in C, Java, Lisp, Python, and TCL. -- Dave Miel

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 18:11 -0500] >But what I am trying to say, my screen font has not changed, and in 4.5 >I got all 8 dots up when typing that character -- I was typing all 8 >dots on the keyboard, but now when I tyhpe all 8 dots, I am getting a >very different

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread covici
But what I am trying to say, my screen font has not changed, and in 4.5 I got all 8 dots up when typing that character -- I was typing all 8 dots on the keyboard, but now when I tyhpe all 8 dots, I am getting a very different character which comes out as a question mark. Dave Mielke wrote: > [qu

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread covici
OK, sounds interesting. I have never used it, so what languages can you use with it? Could you use perl or something simple? Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 14:23 -0500] > > >I have the section character (40 of them in a file), for testing the > >

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 14:23 -0500] >I have the section character (40 of them in a file), for testing the >Braille display and bringing all dots up.\ A BrlAPI client could be written to do that. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the ver

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread covici
Anyway to get brltty to display the character correctly -- at least for this one? Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:34 -0500] > > >hmmm, if I type all 8 dots, it comes out a question mark instead of all > >8 dots -- what am I doing wrong? > > Proba

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread covici
I have the section character (40 of them in a file), for testing the Braille display and bringing all dots up. Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:21 -0500] > > >OK, I will try to change the character, maybe that would be easier than > >to find where

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:34 -0500] >hmmm, if I type all 8 dots, it comes out a question mark instead of all >8 dots -- what am I doing wrong? Probably nothing. By pressing all eight dots, you're entering the desired character. The system then tries to display th

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:21 -0500] >OK, I will try to change the character, maybe that would be easier than >to find where the one I have is located. When you say the character you have, what do you mean? -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread covici
If I type all 8 dots, I get 8bc3 in hex. cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > hmmm, if I type all 8 dots, it comes out a question mark instead of all > 8 dots -- what am I doing wrong? > > Dave Mielke wrote: > > > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:00 -0500] > > > > >My tabl

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread covici
It was a different version of brltty as well. Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:00 -0500] > >My character seems to be a unicode a7c2, but I can only find it in > >/etc/brltty/zh-tw.ctb:always and it does not have the dots I am seeing. > >What I am se

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread covici
hmmm, if I type all 8 dots, it comes out a question mark instead of all 8 dots -- what am I doing wrong? Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:00 -0500] > > >My table is en-naccb.ttb. > > In the en-nabcc text table, the only character represented by al

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread covici
OK, I will try to change the character, maybe that would be easier than to find where the one I have is located. Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:00 -0500] > > >My table is en-naccb.ttb. > > In the en-nabcc text table, the only character represent

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:00 -0500] >My character seems to be a unicode a7c2, but I can only find it in >/etc/brltty/zh-tw.ctb:always and it does not have the dots I am seeing. >What I am seeing is just for a7, but changing it does not change what I >am seeing. A7C

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/05 at 01:00 -0500] >My table is en-naccb.ttb. In the en-nabcc text table, the only character represented by all eight dots is a capital letter E with a diaeresis accent (two dots above it). You may know this accent by its name in another languag

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread covici
My table is en-naccb.ttb. Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/04 at 19:33 -0500] > > >I have a strange problem -- I am not sure when this started, but > >definitely in the 5.0 series. There used to be a symbol by which I > >could get all 8 dots -- my speech

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread covici
Hi. My character seems to be a unicode a7c2, but I can only find it in /etc/brltty/zh-tw.ctb:always and it does not have the dots I am seeing. What I am seeing is just for a7, but changing it does not change what I am seeing. What am I missing? Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cov...@ccs.

Re: [BRLTTY] possible problem or bug with 5.0

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by cov...@ccs.covici.com on 2014/03/04 at 19:33 -0500] >I have a strange problem -- I am not sure when this started, but >definitely in the 5.0 series. There used to be a symbol by which I >could get all 8 dots -- my speech recognized it as section, but now the >character is transl