synth_direct usage question

[Willem van der Walt]

Good day,
I were under the impression that I can echo a 1 to the synth_direct ebntry 
in the /sys/accessibility/speakup directory to tell speakup to just pass 
the punct/special chars directly to the synthesizer.
When I did that, it spoke the one and I also saw that the "file" has -w- 
-w- -w- permitions, 
, write-only.
This with openttsd and ospeakup running, not that that should be relevant.
I obviously got the use of synth_direct wrong, could someone please 
correct me in how I should go about in doing what I want?
I am working on northern sotho for espeak, a language that has quite a 
number of 
chars above decimal code 128 and I need to get them spoken in speakup.
This can also be terminal settings, but sometimes, I get <C5> when the 
char is dec 197, so its the hex code for the character and not the symbol 
that I here.
Any ideas?
TIA, Willem


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