[orca-list] Orca with Dropline Gnome 2.20 not working

[Adam Myrow <myrowa bellsouth net>]

Hi.  I just subscribed to this list hoping for some pointers.  I have just 
downloaded Dropline Gnome 2.20 for Slackware 12.0.  It comes with Orca 
2.20.2.  It does not start.  I have Festival installed, and it works with 
test-speech.  When I try to start Orca, even with the "--version" option, 
it fails to start.  Here is what I get from trying to run Orca regardless 
of what options I give it.

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 57, in <module>
    import httpserver
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/httpserver.py", line 36, in <module>
    import speech
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/speech.py", line 35, in <module>
    import keynames
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/keynames.py", line 29, in <module>
    import chnames
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/chnames.py", line 116 
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/chnames.py on line 116, but no 
encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for 
details.

I checked the file out, but see no problems.  I also checked the web page 
mentioned, and it indicated that a comment should be in the file 
indicating what encoding to use.  Is this a known bug?  If not, is it a 
problem with Python, Orca, or something else that Dropline may have done? 
I'd appreciate any advice as to where to start troubleshooting this 
problem.  Thanks.