Re: [orca-list] Orca and character encoding

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Isaac:

Orca should be converting characters to UTF-8 before sending them 
downstream.  If it isn't, then I believe it's a bug.  Orca could 
potentially be modified to convert things to Latin-1, but I believe that 
kind of thing should be handled at the speech layer and not inside Orca. 
 That is, I believe the knowledge that a speech engine only understands 
Latin-1 is more properly handled by the speech layer than Orca.

Having said all that 2.22 is quite old and is no longer maintained.  The 
only version under maintenance/development right now is 2.28, and we'll 
soon be working towards 2.30.

Will

Isaac Porat wrote:
> Hi Will
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
> Also if the problem is downstream from Orca which seems to be the
> indication, is there a way to tell Orca to translate say utf-8 to say
> Latin-1 for western european languages as way around the problem until it is
> fixed by the developers of the speech engine?
> The Orca version of the distro in question is still 2.22 and I am not sure
> if this problem may be something to do with that as you indicated that you
> did recently some work with diacritics ?
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Isaac
>
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