[brailleblaster] Re: Dealing with unknown locale
- From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:29:27 -0400
Michael,
You are correct. I was using SAPI 5. When I switched to eSpeak the symbols are
read.
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4:09 PM
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Dealing with unknown locale
It may be synthesiser specific, that is why I mentioned I am using espeak.
Michael Whapples
On 25/04/2012 18:23, Vic Beckley wrote:
> Michael and John,
>
> With NVDA I am not getting any speech. I will have my wife look at the screen
> tonight to see if there is actually a menu being displayed. More later!
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
>
> Vic
> E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:32 AM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Dealing with unknown locale
>
> When I start BrailleBlaster withe the Chinese locale (as described by
> Vic) the menus seem OK. The problem might be that window-eyes may not be
> pronouncing the chinese symbols, NVDA with espeak on my system just
> trots out the unicode values.
>
> As for the welcome message being spoken correctly, well correctly in
> English, but it should also be localised into other languages, so for
> that command it should be Chinese. There are other non-localised
> messages, for example the BrailleBlaster window title is not localised.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 25/04/2012 15:22, John J. Boyer wrote:
>> Hi Vic,
>>
>> I think you need a sighted person to look at the menus. Window-Eyes may
>> be trying to speak Chinese. It would be interesting to see what is on
>> the screen visually.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:01:05AM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
>>> Michael and John,
>>>
>>> When I type in the following command there is a problem:
>>>
>>> Java -Duser.language=zh -Duser.region=CN -jar brailleblaster.jar
>>>
>>> BB comes up fine. The Welcome screen reads and you are placed in the edit
>>> box. However, none of the menus speak anything. They are working because
>>> window-Eyes says "pull-down" when I press the alt combination for the menus.
>>> Shouldn't it load the other language translation from the lang folder?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
>>>
>>> Vic
>>> E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
>>> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 7:39 PM
>>> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [brailleblaster] Dealing with unknown locale
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> We really need a default messages file for the case when the user is
>>> using a locale not supported by BrailleBlaster.
>>>
>>> The default messages file for the i18n bundle would be i18n.properties
>>> in the programData/lang directory. I'll leave it up to you to decide
>>> what the content/language this file should be.
>>>
>>> Here is a test to show that currently it fails: Give the command
>>> java -Duser.language=fr -Duser.region=FR -jar brailleblaster.jar
>>>
>>> You will find an exception is thrown. While in the above case you are
>>> specifying an unknown locale, the same situation can arise if the user's
>>> default locale is an unknown one (eg. if there system were a French system).
>>>
>>> Michael Whapples
>>>
>
>
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