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From: "Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@comcast.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:44:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzr9vbf7.fsf@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvodhigjoa.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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.

Does any other char mean UTF-8?  If this is the case, wouldn't you agree
that it is better to not have UTF-8 support than to not be able to use
the computer because your speech synth locks up unexpectedly and often?

rdc
-- 
Robert D. Crawford                                      rdc1x@comcast.net

You will attract cultured and artistic people to your home.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-03 19:24 Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible? cmr.Pent
2007-08-07 10:41 ` Tim X
2007-08-08  9:09   ` cmr.Pent
2007-08-08 14:56   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 23:44     ` Robert D. Crawford [this message]
2007-08-09 17:44       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-10  7:40         ` Tim X
2007-08-10  5:39       ` Tim X
2007-08-10  9:23         ` grep-find question (Is it a bug of GunWin32 version of "grep") brianjiang
2007-08-10 14:07           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-11  5:55             ` brianjiang
2007-08-11  7:06               ` brianjiang
2007-08-11 10:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-12  9:58                 ` brianjiang
2007-08-12 18:59                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-10  5:27     ` Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible? Tim X
2007-08-11  4:02       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-13 21:47         ` Raman
2007-08-14 18:28           ` Stefan Monnier

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