Hello all,
Thanks to Samuel on this list, I have at least learned of the cause of
this problem, and a possible workaround. I will quote the relevant
portions from his off-list advice.
> Can ë be typed directly on your keyboard, or do you need e.g. to
press a dead-diaeresis, then e? That's a current shortcoming of
keysimulation that they simulate only one keypress (possibly with
modifiers).
It was indeed a dead-key combo, but that was not the problem. It was not
listed in the X-keymap shown by 'xmodmap -pke'.
> But perhaps it's [not] available as direct key? xmodmap -pke would tell
This was indeed the case. In my X-environment, I can not type the
characters not listed in the keymap, but on a real TTY-console, I can.
Thank you for helping me understand,
Frans-Willem Post
The Netherlands
On 18-08-17 20:40, Frans-Willem Post wrote:
Hello,
Using BRLTTY 5.3.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.3, with Orca 3.18.2 and a FS Focus
40 Blue over USB.
I would like to know if it is possible to type ALL characters from my
braille table using the dots 1-8 on the display?
I use my own table, based on the standard European table from
http://www.braille.ch/eb-erl-g.htm
For most characters this works: simple letters, capital letters,
digits. I can even type some accented characters, but not all.
For example: I can type 'a' using Dot1, 'A' using Dot1+Dot7, '1' using
Dot1+Dot6 and 'á' using Dot1+Dot6+Dot8 - but not 'ë' using
Dot1+Dot2+Dot4+Dot6+Dot8. Why not?
Thank you,
Frans-Willem Post
The Netherlands
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