Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?

[Stefan Monnier]

> A)    Manpower Cycles(ramanpower cycles are vanishingly small for this)
> B)      Ability to test --- TTS engines, multibyte texts, and
>         someone who uses it
> C)      Early users who are sufficiently knowledgeable to be able
>         to bear the pain, identify problems, and and define
>         solutions

Maybe a first step will be to make it a customizable option, marked as
"please help test&debug it if you can".

If it ever starts to appear mildly usable, you can then change its default
to "enabled", and document how to turn it off at as many places as you can
think of.

If you ever intend to start this transition, better start early and better
let other people find&fix the bugs for you ;-)

Unibyte sessions in Emacs are becoming more and more problematic, so you'll
probably have to make the transition at some point (there's no indication
we'll ever remove support for unibyte *buffers and strings*, which have some
very important uses, but it's difficult to improve the support for multibyte
sessions without introducing minor problems in unibyte *sessions*).


        Stefan