Re: [g-a-devel] Happy patch bonanza (more patch bonanza)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks for the affirmation, Enrico!  I'll let this fester for more  
comments for a day or so, but will probably commit your patch to  
gnome-speech some time Monday morning GMT-6.

Will

On Jul 1, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Enrico Zini wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:25:32AM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
>
> > Let me make sure I understand the proposal here:
> > 1) IN FESTIVAL: Rely on a convention to optionally extend the
> [...]
> > 2) IN GNOME-SPEECH: Patch the gnome-speech festival synthesis driver  
> > to
> [...]
>
> Yes, that's the same as I understood.
>
> > This sounds simple enough to me.  I may be misunderstanding something
> > in one of the threads on this topic, but it seems that it is implied
> > that the user will be setting the character encoding for their desktop
> > to be the same as that of their synthesis engine/voice and visa versa.
> > Should some sort of transcoding/conversion be attempted if there is a
> > detected mismatch, or is this automatically handled by the g_io
> > infrastructure?
>
> From what I understand from here:
> http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-IO-Channels.html#g-io-channel- 
> set-encoding
> then g_io is capable of doing recoding internally, since it says that
> "The internal encoding is always UTF-8.".  I understand that the idea  
> is
> that a GTK application can do everything in UTF-8 internally and g_io
> takes care of recoding when one needs to interact with the messy
> external world.  Which is quite cool, actually :)
>
> > In addition, the obvious impact here is on our Telugu
> > (festival-te.sf.net) and other UTF-8 language friends - they would  
> > need
> > to extend the relevant festival voices to set the "coding" parameter  
> > to
> > UTF-8 and also help test this.
>
> Yes, they would need to add the coding attribute, or gnome-speech would
> try to recode their input into ISO-8859-1 (latin1), probably failing
> while trying to recode sequences that cannot be encoded in latin1.
>
> Luckily, it's very simple to add the coding attribute: see the attached
> patch for Telugu (I followed the URL you gave to download the sources).
>
> > Please let me know if I'm understanding this correctly.  In addition,
> > many many thanks to both Enrico and Milan for their understanding and
> > diligence in this matter.  You definitely help define what "community"
> > means.
>
> Thanks!
> /me blushes
>
> > PS - I'm out of the office for the next several days, but I will
> > release a new gnome-speech tarball for the next GNOME 2.15 deadline
> > (12-July) if we can quickly reach closure on this.
>
> That would be just fantastic.
>
>
> Ciao,
>
> Enrico
>
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