Goofy Characters

[Steve Holmes]

In addition to my earlier post below, I tried lowering the reading
punc level but these extended characters are still spoken.  is there
any way to suppress these characters? It makes it nearly impossible
for me to use elinks or alsamixer effectively.

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 03:03:57AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> This might have been discussed in the past but I can't remember the solution.  It seems that I'm getting a bunch of weird extended ASCII characters when boxes are drawn on the screen like when using elinks and you open dialogs Speakup has all kinds of descriptions for these special characters but it nearly makes elinks and similar programs very unpleasant to use.  On my ArchLinux box, there is a locale configuration where we choose character sets.  I have utf8-en_US and iso-8859-1 also.  I think I have that number right.  Do I need to change that entry to something else or is there something in speak up I can change?  One idea I may try is to turn down the verbosity but I still wanna hear basic punctuation but perhaps mute these extended characters.
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> Any ideas?
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