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

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Hi Michael,

> 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?
>   

It's in chnames.py file about line 139

Replace:

__chnames["#"] = _("pound")

with:

__chnames["#"] = _("hash")

and then reinstall Orca.

Maybe that's something that should be done for the UK English localization
(um, localisation). Maybe it should be a general change...


> 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.
>   

These would go in chnames.py too.