From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible? Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:27:01 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87r6mc6jtm.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <1186169058.124273.9230@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <87sl6viq3s.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186731559 21888 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2007 07:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:39:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 09:39:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJP5X-0002dv-1M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:39:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJP5W-00051U-LR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:39:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iUqN9yiSInZEm1BccGKQCAi//QU= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 23 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150883 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:38:24 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46459 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Emacspeak AFAIK doesn't support multi-byte characters. The problem is >> that many speech synthesises, particularly older hardware based ones like >> the dectalk, don't understand UTF-8 character sets. If you send them >> a multibyte character, they either lock up, speak garbage or do something >> else unexpected. > > That's not a good reason to prevent display of any other char. > > > Stefan Nobody said it was a good reason, its just the reason. I'd suggest you need to have familiarity with how it works and its internals and history before you can make a judgement, Given your contributions and long involvement with emacs I'm surprised to see you make such an uninformed statement which contributes so little. Tim