Re: [orca-list] Orca's naming of characters, how to correct them

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Michael:

As Joanie mentions, we're currently working on the character naming
stuff, providing better direction for translators to handle localized
names for characters.  

In the meantime, if you want to modify the dictionary yourself, you can
do so without needing to modify the Orca code.  To do this today, you
can edit your ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py (create it if needed)
similar to the following:

import orca.chnames
orca.chnames.__chnames["#"] = "octothorpe"
orca.chnames.__chnames["."] = "full stop"

Currently, both strings are UTF-8 strings, but we plan on making the
string in the braces (e.g., the ["#"] above) a Python unicode string.
For most cases, you won't have to worry and can just type the character;
we'll use unicode syntax only when it comes to characters that are
difficult to express in source code (e.g., "u\'u2023'" for "triangular
bullet").

Keep in mind that this is volatile territory right now, so things will
be changing soon.  One change we probably should (and most likely will)
make is to change the name of __chnames to a more 'public' name.

Hope this helps,

Will

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 00:05 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> Its been one thing that has bugged me from the beginning of using orca,
> it refers to the hash/number symbol (#) as pound. This is so wrong, I
> haven't found it in any other screen reader, synthesiser, and its just
> not correct (I live in the UK, that's certainly not the pounds sign). I
> either accept hash or number for it as both of these are fairly commonly
> used names for it, so can this be fixed, or if you don't want to fix it
> in orca, where can I fix it in my copy?
>
> Sorry may be I am being a bit harsh about it, but it is something which
> really stands out. On a similar note, there are some symbols not known
> by orca, so these could do with being added, but as some of them may be
> country specific, or users may have there own preference for a name for
> it (eg.  and  are not spoken by orca (if I have all my character sets
> done correct on this ubuntu machine, the second of those examples is the
> pounds sign)), so a user configuration system for the naming of symbols
> might be good.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
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