speakup localization question

[Willem van der Walt]

Hello,
I am trying to make speakup work with an Afrikaans speech synthesizer.
It works and I could get speakup to say punctuation marks correctly by 
changing the /proc/speakup/characters values.  Is there a way to change 
the phonettic alfabet and the word "blank" without changing it permantly 
in the source code and recompiling?
Also is there a place where one can change speakup's own messages to 
another language without recompiling and changing source?
Things like
:"Press space to leave help, cursor up or down to scroll, or a letter to 
go to commands in list", ideally needs to be translated into whatever 
language one is trying to implement.
TIA
Willem


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