Re: [orca-list] minor issues with braille support

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

Ah, so it's a packaging issue? Thanks a lot for that, I'll fix the sonar 
package right now.
Thanks
Kendell Clark

On 08/26/2016 10:25 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Kendell.
>
> Thanks for sending me the debug.out. The traceback you sent looks a lot
> like the issue described here:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44319#comment138158. Attila provides the
> traceback he got and what he had to do to fix it, namely use
> "--enable-ucs4" when building liblouis.
>
> Hope this helps.
> --joanie
>
> On 08/26/2016 08:11 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > Well, I know part of the problem. Looking through my logs, there's a
> > traceback when the contracted braille switch is turned on, in liblouis.
> > I'm not sure if this means it's a liblouis error or orca's code that
> > interfaces with it.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Kendell Clark
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/26/2016 05:29 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > > hi all
> > >
> > > Storm sent me an old braille sense to test braille support on. It's a
> > > lot more fiddly than I would like, but this is not an orca issue. You
> > > have to change the permissions on the brlapi.key file before orca can
> > > communicate with the display. However there is one issue with this
> > > particular display. It doesn't seem to support contracted braille.
> > > When I attempt to enable contracted braille in orca's braille
> > > settings, the display goes blank and no longer keeps up with orca. If
> > > I disable the option, orca can once again talk to the display. I have
> > > had no problems with the display keeping up, I've used various
> > > applications without issue. I'm beginning to wonder if this is a
> > > display issue or a liblouis or brltty issue? I hope I'm not wasting
> > > anyone's time, I'm very new to braille support so I could be missing
> > > something obvious. I did change teh contraction table to en-uebg2,
> > > followed by pressing the ok button. This is with orca master,
> > > completely up to date, and sonar linux, also up to date, version 16.07.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Kendell Clark
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