Re: Emacspeak and UTF-8 -- possible?

[Tim X]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Emacspeak AFAIK doesn't support multi-byte characters.  The problem is
>> that many speech synthesises, particularly older hardware based ones like
>> the dectalk, don't understand UTF-8 character sets.  If you send them
>> a multibyte character, they either lock up, speak garbage or do something
>> else unexpected.
>
> That's not a good reason to prevent display of any other char.
>
>
>         Stefan

Nobody said it was a good reason, its just the reason.
I'd suggest you need to have familiarity with how it works and its 
internals and history before you can make a judgement, 

Given your contributions and long involvement with emacs 
I'm surprised to see you make such an uninformed 
statement which contributes so little. 


Tim