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
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Robert D. Crawford rdc1x@comcast.net
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next prev parent 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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