Author: alexander Date: 2006-07-11 07:57:00 -0600 (Tue, 11 Jul 2006) New Revision: 1598
Modified: trunk/doc/README trunk/packages/BRLTTY/Makefile Log: Enabled the virtual "xw" Braille driver: useful for debugging. To debug, set up a DHCP server that gives a known IP address to this CD, and an X server (let's say it is at 10.0.2.2:0). Permit unauthenticated connections from the CD to the X server. Boot as: linux DISPLAY=10.0.2.2:0 brltty=xw,10.0.2.2:0,xx where xx is the Braille table name (e.g., "fr_FR"). Figured out (based on http://libbraille.org/translator.php) that there are many locales working with brltty out of the box (tested: cs_CZ, fr_FR, ru_RU.KOI8-R and their UTF-8 counterparts). Reworded the old overly-conservative warning that only en_US works. Modified: trunk/doc/README =================================================================== --- trunk/doc/README 2006-07-10 15:07:41 UTC (rev 1597) +++ trunk/doc/README 2006-07-11 13:57:00 UTC (rev 1598) @@ -243,10 +243,23 @@ first serial port. For other device types, the brltty parameter will be different. -Note: on this CD, the "brltty" program has not been configured to support -any locale other than C and en_US. This is a bug, but the steps required -to fix it are not known. +Note: in some locales, brltty displays incorrect Braille patterns. This is +related to the fact that Braille tables in brltty are indexed with +encoding-dependent byte representing the character. Such representation +becomes invalid when another encoding for the same language is used. +E.g., that's why the "ru" table (designed for KOI8-R encoding) produces +wrong result in the ru_RU.CP1251 locale. +Known non-working cases: + All CP1251-based locales (no CP1251 Braille table in brltty) + zh_TW (configuration instructions available in Chinese only) + All other Chinese, Japanese and Korean locales (no support in brltty) + +If brltty displays incorrect Braille patterns displays incorrect Braille +patterns in your locale, please revert to the en_US locale, thus avoiding +the use of non-ASCII characters. If you know how to fix this problem +for your locale, mail this information to [EMAIL PROTECTED] + RESUMING THE BUILD =========================== There is a hint "How to resume your work after a break at different Modified: trunk/packages/BRLTTY/Makefile =================================================================== --- trunk/packages/BRLTTY/Makefile 2006-07-10 15:07:41 UTC (rev 1597) +++ trunk/packages/BRLTTY/Makefile 2006-07-11 13:57:00 UTC (rev 1598) @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ compile-stage2: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-speech-support \ - --disable-api --without-x + --disable-api make $(PM) make install -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
