GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 520601
Provide support for unknown unicode characters
Last modified: 2008-03-05 22:43:52 UTC
From private e-mail to me: "I only found a couple of special characters that I encounter on a speratic basis that orca didn't already have a entry for. But what about (in the very unlikely event) that I run into a special character in a doccument that isn't automatically recognized by orca? I noticed that there is no speech output for unknown characters. Is there a way to obtain the unicode value of unidentified characters like there is in JAWS? To me it seems this could be done in the getCharacterName() function. instead of returning character after the try block, it could return something like "character u+#### hex". So the user could at least look up the unicode table and find out what the character is supposed to be."
dup of 431531?
Ah yes...although bug 431531 is titled "Add support for user-configurable character naming", bullet #1 of the first comment contains this: "1. If a user comes across a unicode character that isn't spoken and cannot see what's on the screen to see what it is, how can the user identify it and add it? We need some way (keystroke, addition to whereAmI, whatever) to communicate the unicode character number to the user. The user could then look up the specified character in a table (e.g. at unicode.org) and add the character along with the desired name to his/her personal dictionary." You'd remember that because you wrote it. :-) Closing this as a dup. Thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 431531 ***
(In reply to comment #2) > You'd remember that because you wrote it. :-) Heh. You give my brain more credit than it's due. ;-) Character naming is another one of those important things which I happen also to find "fun." (Forgot to mention it yesterday though. See prev paragraph.)