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Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?
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Robert D. Crawford |
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Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible? |
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Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:44:44 -0500 |
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Emacspeak AFAIK doesn't support multi-byte characters. The problem is
>> that many speech synthesises, particularly older hardware based ones like
>> the dectalk, don't understand UTF-8 character sets. If you send them
>> a multibyte character, they either lock up, speak garbage or do something
>> else unexpected.
>
> That's not a good reason to prevent display of any other char.
Does any other char mean UTF-8? If this is the case, wouldn't you agree
that it is better to not have UTF-8 support than to not be able to use
the computer because your speech synth locks up unexpectedly and often?
rdc
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