From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert D. Crawford" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible? Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:44:44 -0500 Message-ID: <87tzr9vbf7.fsf@comcast.net> 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 1186620035 32357 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2007 00:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 09 02:40:33 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 1IIw4n-0001pi-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIw4m-0000nQ-Hi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:41:47 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:565531Qr6oVqm/cRzEWUXKf5SmA= Original-Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.52.51.66 Original-X-Trace: sv3-rwG99xaFP7PjbRFviLzUhYJeha3ftjGzGUrjzFxKzOtQtgAsTaKVXBk0rxcLLxfTVmBNyHNUiP/M1d3!QKRssgLddjaykIu+ZtCx8xwXexXnYEKjCPd7NarsXcAtm5iq8Z2WjK0Bf7Hu7wfCsSk0X8DkgcMM!tis= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150848 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:46424 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. 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.