Extended ASCII Characters

[Steve Holmes]

I'm asking again about these extended characters with speakup.  I'm
using UTF-8 character set and every place there would be a normal
character to represent something like the boarder of a box in a dialog
or the corner of a box or whatever, I'm getting 3 characters for each
occurence and they are these ungoddly pronunciations and changing
punctuation does not keep them from being spoken.  So far, I think the
only way I've been able to stop this junk is to change locale.gen to
not include utf-8 but when I do that, it breaks a bunch of other
things including speech dispatcher.

Doesn't anyone else experience these funny characters? I really need
to eliminate these as it is making it nearly impossible to use a lot
of ncurses apps.

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 08:15:42PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Mostly, I was just doing reading punc because when I tested, I was
> using the read line command to speak the line so I am attributing that
> to read_punc.  I could change them both next time I test this but I
> think I would experience the same issues.  I wonder if there is
> anything at all in Speakup that can alter this.  I might have to
> tinker with a dictionary in espeak or something.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 01:03:47PM -0400, ChuckH wrote:
> > Steve,
> > 
> > Are you adjusting punc_level as well as reading_punc?
> > 
> > Chuck
> > 
> > On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there any way to get speakup not to speak these characters when
> > > reviewing or otherwise? When I set read punctuation even down to zero,
> > > they are still spoken.  I would only be interested in hearing these on
> > > demand.  I'm speaking about characters well above decimal 127.  Like
> > > decimal values of 226, 246 and the like.
> > >
> > > Anyway to quiet these chars down during normal use? I'm using latest
> > > speakup, espeak and espeakup.
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