Re: [orca-list] Symbol names always sent as English strings

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Oops, I'm being spammy today. Sorry! In addition to the information
below: If Orca is started with LANG=pt_BR.utf8, but I use Gedit in
English (my default locale), Orca still says "asterisco" when I arrow to
the "*" char in gedit.

--joanie

On 1/28/19 10:42 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> I started Gedit from a terminal after doing export LANG=pt_BR.utf8. I
> started Orca also from a terminal in which I had done export
> LANG=pt_BR.utf8. When I arrowed to the "*" character, Orca spoke
> "asterisco". Dunno if that data point helps or not....
>
> --joanie
>
> On 1/28/19 9:53 AM, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> > Thanks for the response, and for bringing this to the Orca list as well.
> > While I do hear Asterisko when I send the * symbol to spd-say with the
> > parameters you specify, I still hear "star" attempted in Orca's help,
> > which may be expected, since although I have set Brazilian Portuguese as
> > my spoken language in Orca's preferences, I didn't change the system
> > locale. More disturbing however is that I am seeing this behavior in
> > Fenrir as well, which is configured to use speech-dispatcher, and on the
> > system that is using Fenrir, I have in fact changed the system locale,
> > and have even rebooted the machine. In spite of all this, something is
> > still sending English symbol names to the speech synthesizer. I also
> > received confirmation that Orca is sending English symbol names to the
> > speech synthesizer on the same OS, even after the locale change. I have
> > to wonder why some things aren't being changed along with the system
> > locale. I have seen a report that spell checking using Hunspell in Nano
> > is speaking English but offering Portuguese spell checking as well.
> > Could these things be related? Could changing the system locale somehow
> > only be making a partial change, even though $LANG is set correctly?
> > ~Kyle
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