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Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:56:10 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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


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