Re: [orca-list] Question about Unicode and languages in UBuntu

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd jsd clara co uk>]

On 30 Jan, Chris Gilland <chrisgilland carolina rr com> wrote:
>  All we're wanting to do is have a way of getting as those
> characters.  Even if the only way to do it, is to have it gives us
> the numerical unicode decimal value.  For instance:  the arabic
> value for the letter that is called alif is:  1 5 7 5. 

Recent versions of eSpeak should do this, although it says the unicode
value as hexadecimal rather than decimal.

eSpeak should always say something for any character if it's asked to
speak the "name" of the character.  This feature should be used by a
screen-reader program when speaking character names, character by
character.

When speaking text, eSpeak should say something for all alphabetic
characters, but unknown non-alphabetic characters (such as unknown
symbols) are ignored.