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

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Hi,

on the desktop layout, press keypad 2 3 times.

To find a list of keystrokes that orca support, you can either look in 
the orca preferences, or press your orca key + double h.

Hope this helps.

-Jon
On Mon 28/06/2010 at 00:51:13, Ben J. Bloomgren wrote:
> 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 way outdated, passes the Unicode value through to specific voices;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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