Hi. I need to stay on a kernel with long term support, right now I have 4.14.90 -- anything you can do to make this work -- 4.19 is not an lts kernel as far as I know.
Thanks. On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:23:01 -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > > Finally, after two major delays, brltty-6.0 is just about ready. The crrrent > plan is to release it in a couple of weeks, i.e. February 18 or shortly > thereafter. Please, everyone who can, do test the latest development code as > best you can so that we can do our best to ensure that 6.0 will be as problem > free as possible. > > The big feature in brltty-6.0 is its ability to read Unicode characters from a > Linux text screen. This new capability also requires the use of a Linux 4.19 > (or later) kernel. The constraint of only being able to read at most 512 > unique > characters at a time has finally been eliminated. The 256 Unicode braille cell > (pattern) characters are now correctly rendered without having to do any fancy > font fiddling and without having to sacrifice 256 otherwise useful character > definitions. We can finally read several languages without having to switch > fonts. This new capability should also resolve a lot of problems for those who > read languages like Mandarin and Cantonese which require many, many > characters. > > -- > I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ > EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke > Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
