Re: [orca-list] Umlauts separated with Speech-Dispatcher

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd jsd clara co uk>]

On 23 Mar, Marco Zehe <marco zehe googlemail com> wrote:

> I just got  Orca working with Speech-Dispatcher on a Debian Lenny
> install. After switching to it using eSpeak, I notice that, in
> contrast to Gnome-Speech, German umlauts and possibly other
> international characters seem to be separated out from the rest of
> the surrounding word. The German word "Schaltfläche", for example,
> becomes "Schaltfl ä che", as if the a umlaut character was singled
> out for some reason.

I've just tried this on Ubuntu Hardy (beta) using speech-dispatcher
0.6.6 and eSpeak 1.36.02 with Orca.  It works OK.

The problem may be that something does not recognise character ä as an
alphabetic character, and therefore treats "Schaltfl" and "che" as
separate words.

You say that Gnome-Speech plus eSpeak are OK.  Probably using eSpeak
from the command line is OK?  eg.
  espeak -xvde "Schaltfläche"

So perhaps the problem is in speech-dispatcher?

What does the command:

locale

show for LC_CTYPE?  Is it a UTF-8 locale?