[orca-list] Multilingual Orca

[Timothy Hobbs <timothyhobbs seznam cz>]

I'd like to know why this message never came through to the mailing
list.  Sending again.

Timothy Hobbs pÃÅe v So 31. 12. 2011 v 01:24 +0100:
> Mrs. Diggs,
> I was very much wanting to be a tester for orca master for you, and to
> maybe even help debug a bit(I cannot make any promises about my Python
> skills, I have never contributed to a major project in any language
> other than Lisp and Haskell, and in those instances my contributions
> where of the most minor sort).  I'm a sighted user who is here merely
> out of interest.  
>
> Unfortunately I use my computer in Czech, and
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419742> is a total blocker
> for me.  I cannot understand system messages in Czech when espeak's
> voice is set to en, and I cannot understand English text when espeak's
> voice is set to cz.  I read most of the relevant code last week but am
> coming up towards exams next month so I probably will not work on any
> solutions to this bug in the very near future(Perhaps when I fail my
> exams and they kick me out of school I will have more time on my
> hands :D). I had the idea of taking the variable "voices" from
> settings.py and making a class of it(perhaps we could name it
> languageProfile).  And then creating a Dict object, pairing "LOCAL"
> values from ACSS to lagnaugeProfiles.
>
> I would then make a global variable of the current local.
>
> I would then make the functions(These functions would simply look up the
> correct values in the languageProfile Dictionary object):
> get_current_acss(voice=default,uppercase,hyperlink,or system)
> """Returns an acss instance for the current language."""
> get_localized_acss(local=LOCAL,
> voice=default,uppercase,hyperlink,system)
> """Returns an acss instance for the given LOCAL."""
> get_system_acss(voice=default,uppercase,hyperlink,or system)
> """Returns an acss instance for the system LOCAL."""
>
> Then let the orca scripts pass the outputs of those functions to the
> speak function.  For example, in LibreOffice writer we know the language
> of the text, so we should automatically speak using the correct local.
>
> Does this seem sensible to you?  I am asking as much to check my
> understanding of the orca code, as to propose a change.
>
> Thank you for your patience with me,
> Timothy Hobbs