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Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?
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Tim X |
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Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible? |
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Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:27:01 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.
>
>
> Stefan
Nobody said it was a good reason, its just the reason.
I'd suggest you need to have familiarity with how it works and its
internals and history before you can make a judgement,
Given your contributions and long involvement with emacs
I'm surprised to see you make such an uninformed
statement which contributes so little.
Tim
- Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?, (continued)
- Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?, Tim X, 2007/08/10
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- RE: grep-find question (Is it a bug of GunWin32 version of "grep"), brianjiang, 2007/08/11
- RE: grep-find question (Is it a bug of GunWin32 version of "grep"), brianjiang, 2007/08/11
- Re: grep-find question (Is it a bug of GunWin32 version of "grep"), Eli Zaretskii, 2007/08/11
- RE: grep-find question (Is it a bug of GunWin32 version of "grep"), brianjiang, 2007/08/12
- Re: grep-find question (Is it a bug of GunWin32 version of "grep"), Eli Zaretskii, 2007/08/12
- Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?,
Tim X <=
- Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/08/11
- Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?, Raman, 2007/08/14
- Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/08/14