[orca-list] Orca and character encoding

["Isaac Porat" <isaac porat me uk>]

Hi Will

On another mailing list, there are reports on problems with utf-8 and it
suggested that the problem is perhaps with speech-dispatcher but it is not
clear.

I wonder how Orca handles character encoding, does Orca translate all
characters to a common denominator such as utf-8 and sends these to the
speech engine or does it send it in it in its original encoding and if so
how it indicates the encoding to the engine?
Also if the problem is downstream from Orca which seems to be the
indication, is there a way to tell Orca to translate say utf-8 to say
Latin-1 for western european languages as way around the problem until it is
fixed by the developers of the speech engine?
The Orca version of the distro in question is still 2.22 and I am not sure
if this problem may be something to do with that as you indicated that you
did recently some work with diacritics ?

Thanks
Regards
Isaac