Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt index 5ff6a0f..96d4c87 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt @@ -1033,7 +1033,9 @@ speakup + keypad 3, you would hear: The speakup key is depressed, so the name of the key state is speakup. This part of the message comes from the states collection. -14.2. Loading Your Own Messages +14.2. Changing language + +14.2.1. Loading Your Own Messages The files under the i18n subdirectory all follow the same format. They consist of lines, with one message per line. @@ -1066,8 +1068,50 @@ echo '1 azul' > /speakup/i18n/colors The next time that Speakup says message 1 from the colors group, it will say "azul", rather than "blue." +14.2.2. Choose a language + In the future, translations into various languages will be made available, -and most users will just load the files necessary for their language. +and most users will just load the files necessary for their language. So far, +only French language is available beyond native Canadian English language. + +French is only available after you are logged in. + +Canadian English is the default language. To toogle another language, +download the source of Speakup and untar it in your home directory. The +following command should let you do this: + +tar xvjf speakup-<version>.tar.bz2 + +where <version> is the version number of the application. + +Next, change to the newly created directory, then into the tools/ directory, and +run the script speakup_setlocale. You are asked the language that you want to +use. Type the number associated to your language (e.g. fr for French) then press +Enter. Needed files are copied in the i18n directory. + +Note: the speakupconf must be installed on your system so that settings are saved. +Otherwise, you will have an error: your language will be loaded but you will +have to run the script again every time Speakup restarts. +See section 16.1. for information about speakupconf. + +You will have to repeat these steps for any change of locale, i.e. if you wish +change the speakup's language or charset (iso-8859-15 ou UTF-8). + +If you wish store the settings, note that at your next login, you will need to +do: + +speakup load + +Alternatively, you can add the above line to your file +~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. + +If your system administrator ran himself the script, all the users will be able +to change from English to the language choosed by root and do directly +speakupconf load (or add this to the ~/.bashrc or +~/.bash_profile file). If there are several languages to handle, the +administrator (or every user) will have to run the first steps until speakupconf +save, choosing the appropriate language, in every user's home directory. Every +user will then be able to do speakupconf load, Speakup will load his own settings. 14.3. No Support for Non-Western-European Languages -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
