Tony Baechler here.
You're right. I hadn't thought of that. My ancient DECtalk Express doesn't
do Unicode. Windows screen readers do Unicode. Even Android does Unicode. I
would think there might be a way to borrow from Google. They developed a
screen reader for Android which is based on Linux. Oh yes, they would
definitely notice if Unicode is missing. I don't really see them using
emacs. There are lots of other practical reasons to support Unicode, even
though I don't like it. I agree that Speech Dispatcher is probably the
better place to start. That not only gives Orca Unicode support but Speakup
and anything else which uses it.
On 4/27/2017 5:36 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Then we'd better get eSpeak supporting Unicode pronunciation before I
can confidently recommend anything besides Emacspeak to younger
generations. Otherwise, they’ll turn back to iOS, and Voiceover,
which can speak Emoji and such, pretty quickly. I know, I’m not
a developer so it probably won’t happen until Reece gets to the
bottom of the to do list and gets the strings translated to all
102 languages, but really, it needs doing. I have several ways
to get the word out, but if we are to be successful, we can’t
have this glaring emission to tell teens/Young adults about, and
believe me, they’ll notice. Facebook, Twitter, even chatting
programs like Skype, are full of Unicode characters, and its
about time our synthesizers, or synthesizer managers, get with
the times.
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