From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible? Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:56:10 -0400 Message-ID: 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 1186587712 25984 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2007 15:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:41:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 17:41:49 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 1IInfP-0005jb-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IInfP-0003oZ-A9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:41:47 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:56:10 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G8flGBPP9IHdXJuECUNA8HFCzoM= Original-Lines: 10 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-ZNC8CuhbaS1AVVEp3OTLq+WMTR8icEH2iw/PoJeb2K/ODp3XFDUBDHzMSLf4daPVA9HnmRn7JlL2rvA!GxDmXdx3Q1ofisc3bmqZ1AzvoCquUOZr8mf5DWJQmWNsJ5yusB+8viLODeT6BrR3/CRDjAxbPArv!o0zvZ3ZE84wlKG/Kmg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca 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:150833 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:46410 Archived-At: > 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