Jeffery, you don't tell us what synthesizer you're using w/Orca, but the truth is it's the tts engine that really handles the language aspects, as opposed to the screenreader itself. ESpeak, Flite, etc, all have I18N capabilities, I believe, & these are all being used w/Orca. I'm not familiar w/sbl, but here again, if it will work w/a different synthesizer than what you're currently using, give that a try & see if things are better. On 11/3/16, Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Emacs, with Emacspeak, can handle most, if not all, Unicode characters, > even emoji! > > > On 11/3/2016 9:24 PM, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: >> English is the only language I'm fluent in, and among the languages I >> know more than a few words of, many of those words have been imported >> into English anyways, but I still come across enough non-Latin text >> for short comings in internationalization to be annoying. >> >> In graphical mode on my desktop, I use Orca(do there even exist >> graphical screen readers for Linux other than Orca), and it handles >> non-English Latin text well enough, but for some non-Latin character >> sets(such as Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic), it can only read >> character-by-character instead of string characters into words, and >> for others(such as Chinese and Japanese), it can only identify the >> character set and then repeat the word "letter" for each character in >> the string, and then there are some characters Orca can't identify at >> all and just reads the Unicode code point in Hexadecimal. >> >> This can be particularly annoying when reading wiki pages that are >> heavy on foreign terms that are displayed both in their source >> language and Romanized. >> >> My text-mode screen reader, SBL, has even bigger issues, reading >> pretty much all non-ASCII characters as "thorn", and can't even handle >> things such as accented Latin characters or the curly versions of the >> single and double quotes. >> >> If anyone knows anything I could try to improve these, it would be >> greatly appreciated. >> >> If it matters, I'm running a system customized from Knoppix 7.7.1, >> which is based on Debian. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Jackie McBride Website Hosting, Repair, & Development Author of the Book "My Site's Been Hacked, Now what?: A Guide to Preventing and Fixing a Compromised Website" www.brighter-vision.com Where Visionaries & Technology Unite for Good _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list