Re: [orca-list] orca does not read emoji since a recent commit

[Colomban Wendling <cwendling hypra fr>]

Le 25/04/2019 à 13:17, Alex ARNAUD a écrit :
> Le 18/04/2019 à 17:42, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> > Sorry about that. Once speech-dispatcher handles emojis for us, the
> > general emoji problem will be solved.
>
> Unfortunately I think we shouldn't expect emoji support into Speech
> Dispatcher until someone find time to work on it. For now, no one work
> on it so it could never come to Speech Dispatcher or in many many years.

Just to sound a little more optimistic: while indeed someone has to do
it and nobody did yet, it could be a *relatively* easy task if someone
wanted to give it a shot.

Look at the upstream report
https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/issues/49, and know that:

* Current speech dispatcher has support for NVDA symbols dictionaries;
* Those files should be a good way to handle Emojis;
* NVDA might even already have a script for converting the CLDR data to
symbols dictionaries (given I think I heard Emoji support was fixed
there -- not sure), and such a script could then potentially be adopted.
 If not, it could be worked on together with them.

That was a free bit of hope :)
Yet, there still isn't anybody *actually* working on this yet that I'm
aware of, but maybe I just sparkled a vocation?

Cheers,
Colomban