From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: speakup i18n question
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:27:13 +0200 (SAST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906190903270.2588@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090618152448.GL11946@const.bordeaux.inria.fr>
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Good day,
I like Samuel's suggestion of installing all languages and have the user
change the language by echoing to something like
/sys/accessibility/speakup/lang.
I do not really like the idea of $LANG, because I often flip between
Afrikaans and English and do not always want to change $LANG.
What I actually do in practice, is to use the sysrequest line in inittab
to be able to map a key globally for changing voice/language. The key is
alt-up arrow.
It works well for only a few languages, but here in South Africa we have
eleven official languages.
There are not synthesizers for all of the languages yet, but there might
be some day.
Having a pair of keys in speakup to change language would actually be
nice.
For example, the same way one can change rate and pitch, but for changing
between the languages.
I am now answering this email from Samuel in English, using espeak
speaking English, but the next email in my alpine in box might well be an
email in Afrikaans. I then want to quickly flip to Afrikaans for the
duration of that email, flipping back to English for the next email which
is likely to be in English again.
Sorry for the long post, but I think it is important that the developers
understand how this feature might be used.
I have also picked up what I think might be a bit of a bug.
In my case, when pressing speakup-key numpad enter, it says "you turned me
off" as it should, but when pressing this combination again, it just says
hei and not "hei that's better" as it should.
It looks like this is happening everywhere where there is a single quote
in the message.
Thanks again for adding i18n, it is great.
Regards, Willem
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Kirk Reiser, le Thu 18 Jun 2009 11:18:47 -0400, a écrit :
> > Hi Willem and all. We will probably create an i18n directory in the
> > speakup tree with subdirectories for each of the languages by two
> > letter country codes such as en and de.
>
> Also optionally put the country, like en_US vs en_GB, fr_FR vs fr_CA,
> etc.
>
> > We will then most likely have a language option in the installation
> > script
>
> Mmm, better install all languages, and let the user configure it
> afterwards (or have scripts just use the current $LANG from `locale`).
>
> Samuel
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