Re: orca and encoding problem

[Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>]

Hi,

Olivier BERT, le Tue 11 Apr 2006 11:44:47 +0200, a écrit :
> I just installed orca and it seems to work well. 
> I only have one problem. The speech works well but the braille display 
> doesn't displays accents correctly (I am french). On my braille display, 
> I can recognize the UTF8 encoding of the letter but not the 
> one-character braille representation of the character. 

Do you mean that you are getting the byte UTF-8 representation of
characters instead of characters themselves? (I.e. you are getting "é"
instead of "é" ?)

It looks like orca doesn't care about charsets. If it always gets UTF-8
text, brl_module_writeText() should rather do

	if (brl_initialized) {
		brlapi_writeStruct ws = BRLAPI_WRITESTRUCT_INITIALIZER;
		ws.text = str;
		ws.charset = "UTF-8";
		ws.cursor = cursor;
		brlapi_write(&ws);
	}

BTW, orca doesn't check the result of brlapi_*() function. It should, and
call brlapi_perror() on errors.

Regards,
Samuel