Re: [orca-list] special characters

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi All.

> orca.chnames.chnames[u'\u2013'] = _("short dash")
>
> I was a little confused when i first saw the underscore and
> parenthases.  It never occured to me to just strip them out (is there
> some special significance to the underscore and parenthases in
> python?).

It's not just limited to python (as I understand it).  It marks the text
for translation via gettext so that the very awesome GNOME translators
can do their thing.

> I only found a couple of special characters that I encounter on a
> speratic basis that orca didn't already have a entry for.  But what
> about (in the very unlikely event) that I run into a special character
> in a doccument that isn't automatically recognized by orca?  I noticed
> that there is no speech output for unknown characters.  Is there a way
> to obtain the unicode value of unidentified characters like there is
> in JAWS?

Not that we've implemented.  However, a while back based on some list
discussion, I opened up an RFE to support (easily) customizable
character naming and added in a subsequent comment that providing such
access to other unicode characters would be desirable.  I've just added
your thoughts to that RFE, which can be found here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431531

Hope this helps!
--Joanie