Re: [ros-dev] no replies about making reactos accessible for the blind

[Erkin Alp Güney]

You unset the lower line of a 8-bit matrix and you get 6-bit display.
This is simple bit masking and will not require complex driver operations.

15.11.2018 09:59 tarihinde M. Ziggyesque yazdı:
>   I'm not saying it isn't possible to support
> the hardware, just I have
>  not seen any pre-boot environment that the installer might need to
>  communicate with attempt to provide this support, so it is also
>  available to whatever gets installed, after reboot. The installer may
>  be fine using only 6-dot combinations, but I'd consider it likely some
>  varieties of applications will assume all 8 dots may be input or
>  output over the single channels most compilers support.
>
>  ------ Original message------
>  *From: *Erkin Alp Güney
>  *Date: *Thu, Nov 15, 2018 1:04 AM
>  *To: *ros-dev(a)reactos.org;
>  *Cc: *
>  *Subject:*Re: [ros-dev] no replies about making reactos accessible for
>  the blind
>
>  Braille will not be output by GPU, it will be output by CPU onto either
>  USB or serial Braille bumper. Two different output channels may use two
>  different codepages. If they were somewhat dependent as in multi-monitor
>  situation, you would need to drive both via GPU. However they are
>  independent output channels, which just happen to share contents.
>  Commonly used Braille is a six dot encoding and most letters and numbers
>  are encoded by this encoding. Eight dot encoding is used for music and
>  mathematical notations.
>
>
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