Teaching Speakup how to pronounce characters

[Zachary Kline]

Hi Chris et al,

I hadn’t considered that the characters Unicode values would fall outside that range. The actual CP437 just uses different mappings for 0 to 255.
I was hoping I could do something with the characters file to make them read reliably.
I imagine the process of getting Speakup to handle Unicode is non-trivial.

Thanks for the answer, even if it isn’t what I wanted to hear. Would the speakup “pass text directly to soft synth,” option help at all?
Best,
Zack.
> On Apr 9, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Zack,
> Well, Speakup doesn't play nicely with the Unicode characters outside of
> the range [0, 255].  I don't think you can
> get it to pronounce these at all, since I'm pretty sure that most of the
> characters you're interested in are well outside of that range.