[orca-list] orca and multilingual systems?

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi all
I've been getting emails over the past few months from non english
speaking people attempting to use both sonar and fedora, but saying they
can't figure out how to change the language orca speaks in. The problem
seems to be that, although they can change the system language in gnome
by going into the region and language settings, orca doesn't pick up on
this and there's no way to change the language in orca itself. I'm not
sure how to help them. They inevitably bring up nvda, and since orca and
nvda are different, about all I can say is well that's nvda, not orca.
How does orca detect what language to speak in? Does it use the system
locale and then tell speech-dispatcher to use that language? I'm trying
to figure out a way to make it relatively easy to change languages at
boot time, and orca and the system automatically come up in that
language. Since there's no way to change orca's locale, at least from
the gui, could this be added, maybe in the general tab? Orca may have to
be restarted for this to work, I'm not sure.  I'm also not sure how much
work this would be to implement, i hope it's not too much. If this were
ever done, could this be refined to only offer languages the selected
synthesizer can speak in or is that not doable?  I'm a novice at how
locales work in linux other than you use /etc/locale.gen to add them,
and then the gui to change between them.
Thanks
Kendell clark