brltty and fbdev

Tue Feb 20 06:38:02 UTC 2007

[quoted lines by coscell at mail.batol.net on 2007/02/20 at 14:30 +0800]

>Some Chinese console programs use fbdev. Is brltty possible to support
>fbdev? 

IN theory this could be done. I haven't looked into it yet, though, so I'm
unfamiliar with what kind of data is written to a frame buffer. If it's just
bit colouring then the best brltty oculd do (without fancy OCR software) is
present a graphical representation of what's on the screen. If, however,
Unicode is written to it then we can do a lot better. Can anyone point me to a
good tutorial on how to read fbdev?

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