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

["Chris Gilland" <chrisgilland carolina rr com>]

OK, so my friend and I wanna play around a little with foreign languages. 
Yeah, I know we can buy voices let's just say: from Cepstral, etc. but as 
faras figuring out then how to read, we gotta few questions.

Firstly, let's say we land on a character that is not in the ascii value 
set.  Say like a japanese kanji.  Or say some Korean character, or what not. 
I'd assume Orca won't read that character without the voice.  We don't wanna 
install that language of Ubuntu as the primary language.  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. 
So even if all we could hear was 1 5 7 5, that would be addiquit for us.  We 
just need it to say something.

Anyway, is there a way to do this?  When I did num pad two, 3 times quickly 
I got the character then the phinetic, but a 3rd press again, gave me 
character, not the askii or unicode value.

Anyway, does anyone have a suggestion what we could try, aside getting the 
voices?  Does anyone know if really nothing, if the Ubuntu team is working 
to implement something to that effect?

Chris.