Re: [orca-list] Ascii and unicode values?

["Ben J. Bloomgren" <ben j bloomgren gmail com>]

Hello List,

This is my first ever post on this list, and I am only inquiring about 
linux. I am not inquiring about any specific distribution. As long as Orca 
will work in the kernel of the distribution. I am an amateur linguist. I 
have a BA in Spanish. Languages are my life. I haven't played very much with 
linux, although Chris Gilland has helped me substantially. How does Orca do 
with Unicode as a whole? I'm not talking about how Speech-Dispatcher or 
Gnome-Speech, though way outdated, passes the Unicode value through to 
specific voices; rather, I speak of how Unicode is done in Orca. Is there a 
key binding that I can press that will announce the ASCII/Unicode value for 
a character? For example, the Arabic letter (phonetically pronounced "yeh") 
is Decimal value 0610. This is crucial, as if I am not using an Arabic voice 
and I encounter an Arabic character, I won't know what I'm seeing.

On a final and separate note, what does TTY stand for and mean when speaking 
of a bash terminal?

I hope to become more fluent at this different OS, namely Linux, and I hope 
to help the flow of information with yall in the future, possibly 
contributing to the Linux project.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Gilland" <cgilland1 carolina rr com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 00:31
Subject: [orca-list] Ascii and unicode values?


> OK, so I know that num pad 2 desktop=say character | twice=say 
> phinetically if character=letter, and I also know on the laptop that 
> command is capslock comma, but is there not a way to get the ascii or 
> unicode value of a character that your flat review sits on?  I have a 
> friend who's really into languages who is trying to figure this out. I 
> thought for sure I remembered doing this on accident once, but God shoot 
> me, if I remembered how I did it, and I don't think I was dreaming I did 
> this, or, was I?  This is something we really need to implement, if it's 
> not there and I awswsure you that my friend will write the list with his 
> opinion on this and advicate for what I am saying.  That is the only 
> reason he's not convert3ed, but I'll let you all hear it from him 
> directly.
>
> Chris.
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