Orca Multilingual text (was Re: FW: Some experimentations with latest svn and Firefox 3)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

Support for multilingual text is on the Orca RADAR screen and we're 
tracking it via:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400717

Thanks!

Will

Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Hi 
> I agree with both of you that changing language on the fly would be a
> great option. I don't know if you could do it for the whole system, but
> at least for Orca with say espeak would be great.
> /Krister
>
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:13 +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> > Being able to change languages with the press of one button is a 
> > requirement with which I fully agree.
> > I just think that this might be wider than Orca.  Ideally, one would want 
> > the language of all applications currently running to change when one 
> > changes the language.
> > Regards, Willem
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, hermann wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Hi Ian,
> > > I use Espeak as speech output with the Gnome speech driver.
> > > I don't switch the languages, since this is not so easy, as it might be.
> > > You have to change the language in the Orca settings, and I'm not
> > > willing to do this every 5 minutes when reading German and English text.
> > > But your comment leads me to a question to the Orca team: Did you think
> > > about a feature changing language on the fly? That would be nice,
> > > although I took this idea from a screen reader from hell *scnr*.
> > > Regards
> > > Hermann
> > >
> > >
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