French language with Speech Dispatcher, Speechd-el and DECtalk software 5.0

[Nath]

Hynek Hanke <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:26:49PM +0200, Gilles Casse wrote:
>> A new option has been added to select the language (e.g. for spanish "-l es" 
>> ). 
>> At the moment, the default language is french :-).
>> However, I meet an issue when typing french characters under Emacs:
>> For example, the c cedilla (0xe7) seems to crash the output module.
>> When I type:
>> fran??ais
>
> Hi Gilles,
>
> thanks for your interest and please excuse the delay. We have switched the
> internal handling of messages inside the modules to SSML (Speech Synthesis
> Markup Language) and there were various changes in order to do this. I hope
> the problem is fixed in the last version 0.5-rc1, please could you try it?
>
> There might be some problem in recoding the characters also. Please try to add
>       GenericLanguage "fr" "fr" "iso-8859-?"  to the configuration
> file dtk-generic.conf in etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ and substitute
> ? for the appropriate number. (You will most probably need to do this
> anyway).
>
> If it still doesn't work, please switch debugging on in dtk-generic.conf,
> repeat the situation and send me the resulting file.
>
> With Regards,
> Hynek Hanke
>
Hi Hynek ?? al 

first of all, thx for all the great work you made.
I will tru the new speech-dispatcher 
with DECtalk in france tomorrow and let you know the result of course.
Best regards,



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Nath