Symbol names always sent as English strings

[Kyle]

Thanks for the response, and for bringing this to the Orca list as well. While 
I 
do hear Asterisko when I send the * symbol to spd-say with the parameters you 
specify, I still hear "star" attempted in Orca's help, which may be expected, 
since although I have set Brazilian Portuguese as my spoken language in Orca's 
preferences, I didn't change the system locale. More disturbing however is that 
I am seeing this behavior in Fenrir as well, which is configured to use 
speech-dispatcher, and on the system that is using Fenrir, I have in fact 
changed the system locale, and have even rebooted the machine. In spite of all 
this, something is still sending English symbol names to the speech 
synthesizer. 
I also received confirmation that Orca is sending English symbol names to the 
speech synthesizer on the same OS, even after the locale change. I have to 
wonder why some things aren't being changed along with the system locale. I 
have 
seen a report that spell checking using Hunspell in Nano is speaking English 
but 
offering Portuguese spell checking as well. Could these things be related? 
Could 
changing the system locale somehow only be making a partial change, even though 
$LANG is set correctly?
~Kyle