The characters you see depend on your locail. Many programs do not handle 8-bit stuff and are not 8-bit clean. Your terminal and c library will also translate things so set your LC_TYPE (check that) variable correctly. You probably want iso8859-1 not Latin1. On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:54:16AM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I used the /proc/speakup/characters file as a reference and still cannot > figure out why it doesn't work. I saw that the values matched my > expectation, but I am still getting odd stuff when I type them into > editors. If I can successfully jump this hurtle I won't have to reboot > this damn box into winblows every other day for spanish homework. grin. > Thanks for the suggestions. > > On 4 Oct 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote: > > > Hi Tom: Linux uses isolatin1 by default I believe. I don't think the > > other os does but I'm not sure. You can find all of the characters in > > order and their pronunciation strings by doing: > > > > cat /proc/speakup/characters >chars.out > > > > or something along those lines. I believe there is a diacritical you > > can also type and the following key hit does a conversion but I do not > > remember the magic sequence currently. > > > > Kirk > > > > -- > > > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547
