[orca-list] Handling of repeated characters in Thunderbird not working properly

[Paul Hunt <huntp ukonline co uk>]

Hi all,

I've noticed that Orca isn't announcing repeated characters properly in 
Thunderbird.

At the bottom of every message sent to this list I should hear a line 
that reads

"47 underline characters"

followed by all the usual list info blurb.  But now Orca is reading 
every instance of the character.  I.e, I'm hearing "underscore" 47 times 
when I arrow to that line.

Now if I copy the line to the clipboard and paste it into gedit for 
example, it reads properly as "47 underline characters".

So the problem seems to be Thunderbird specific.  Oddly though, some 
characters such as the star character (*) are being handled properly in 
Thunderbird.

Also, if punctuation is set to "all" then the underline characters are 
correctly counted.  I have it set to "some" normally.  The punctuation 
level doesn't seem to affect the repeat character feature in other apps 
like gedit though.

I'm using latestOrca from git master.  Anyone confirm this?

Paul