speakup and key echoe and key layout

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
Regarding the keyboard layout issue:
I have my computer set up for UK (I am using slackware). When I type a 
pounds sign (shift 3) speakup does not say the character as pounds (it 
reports u acute). When I write shift 3 in nano and then use brltty to 
query the character it tells me char 163 (0xA3). If I then save this to 
a text file and use orca to read the character in gedit orca does say 
pounds. Having a look in /sys/modules/speakup/parameters/characters I 
see that pounds seems to label character 156. So it seems that the 
keyboard is working correct for me although speakup isn't reporting the 
pounds sign correctly for me. Do you observe something like the above?

Michael Whapples

On 23/12/42 20:59, Keith Barrett wrote:
> Sorry for the basic questions but have been having problems finding the
> information.
>
> Firstly, I would like to change the keyboard speech option in speakup.
> I would like to turn it off but if possible, still have the backspace
> announced as to what is being deleted.
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> Also, I notice that I am not getting the pound sign on shift three.
> When I installed debian, I chose united kingdom in the country
> selection.  Is this something to do with the speakup keymap?  Is there
> one for the uk?  Is there another way to select the pound sign?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Keith
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