Re: [orca-list] Orca 3.31, Thunderbied 60, new braille problem

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Thanks Samuel.

In answer to your question, ideally both: investigate the issue and make
the braille.py code more robust. But since robust is a good thing.... :)
Could you please do a merge request if you haven't already?

Thanks!
--joanie

On 11/30/18 12:23 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Alex ARNAUD, le ven. 30 nov. 2018 17:54:58 +0100, a ecrit:
> > Le 21/11/2018 à 13:20, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> > > Huh. Since I cannot reproduce this, perhaps one of your colleagues could
> > > look into it and propose a fix?
> >
> > I can reproduce the issue with the braille display but not with the braille
> > monitor. The issue appears also in 3.30 and 3.28.
> >
> > We'll try to investigate and find a way to debug it.
>
> I could reproduce it with the virtual brltty braille display
> (brltty -b xw). The attached patch fixes it: it seems that in this case
> the length of attributeMask is smaller than the length of string, and
> thus brlapi ends up with uninitialized characters. Do you want to
> investigate why attributeMask is smaller than string, or should we just
> make the braille.py code more robust as my patch does?
>
> Samuel
>
>
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