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

["Chris Gilland" <cgilland1 carolina rr com>]

John

We tried hitting num pad 2, three times quickly, and in the case of the
laptop, we tried caps lock comma three times.
It did nothing but repeat the name of the character again.

Chris.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon" <j orcauser googlemail com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Ascii and unicode values?


> 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 way outdated, passes the Unicode value through to specific voices;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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