Re: [orca-list] Orca and character encoding

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Isaac Porat wrote:
> On another mailing list, there are reports on problems with utf-8 and it
> suggested that the problem is perhaps with speech-dispatcher but it is not
> clear.

Which list?

> I wonder how Orca handles character encoding, does Orca translate all
> characters to a common denominator such as utf-8 and sends these to the
> speech engine or does it send it in it in its original encoding and if so
> how it indicates the encoding to the engine?

Orca internally works with utf-8 encoded strings and this encoding is
also used for communication with Speech Dispatcher.  The Speech
Dispatcher Python interface accepts either utf-8 encoded strings or
Python unicode strings, but in either case, the strings are encoded to
utf-8 for communication with the SD server core internally.  SD then
recodes to the encoding accepted by the speech engine, which ofen is
utf-8 again, but may differ according to what the speech engine supports.

Best regards, Tomas