Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-05 Thread Henk Abma
Hello Dave, I would have liked to post some logs, however the actions of brltty are not fully predictable, at least not to me, so here are the speps I took: 1. tunr on fthe F40-new. 2. unlock phone (brltty started correctly) 3. Goto brltty->settings->manage devices->remove device, so I could

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] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/05 at 14:10 +0100] >1. tunr on fthe F40-new. >2. unlock phone (brltty started correctly) >3. Goto brltty->settings->manage devices->remove device, so I could >recreate it and log the connection. >4. When the device was removed, BRLTTY kept displaying info on t

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 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] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-05 Thread Henk Abma
Dave Mielke schreef op 3/5/2014 6:13 PM: [quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/05 at 14:10 +0100] 1. tunr on fthe F40-new. 2. unlock phone (brltty started correctly) 3. Goto brltty->settings->manage devices->remove device, so I could recreate it and log the connection. 4. When the device was re

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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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