Re: [orca-list] Pronunciation dictionary is not working

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

The \ character is an escape character in Python.  To make it be seen 
as a regular backslash, you need to put two in a row: '\\'

Will

On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Hermann wrote:

> On 09.03.2009 at 14:34:18 Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM> wrote:
>
> > Hi Hermann:
> >
> > Sounds like a typo.  And yep, it was.  :-(  My fault.  That's what I
> > get for splitting time between my family and providing support for
> > Orca on my weekends.  :-(  I usually double check the commands, but I
> > was under a bit of pressure to play Pokeman yesterday.  As a result,
> > the free support you got yesterday was unfortunately worth every penny
> > you paid for it.
> Never mind, and now it works.
> But one problem persists:
> I wanted to add the "\" to that list, but Orca refuses to accept my
> definition.
> I suspect the reason is, that this character has a function in
> programming/scripting languages; so the question is how to write that
> rule exactly?
> Simply replacing, for example, the ">" by "\" and "groesser" by
> "backslash" seems not to be enough.
> Hermann