Pronunciation issue with ibmtts

[Olivier BERT]

Hello all, 

I'm experiencing a small issue while using ibmtts with speech diispatcher. 
It is not specific to the use of Speech Dispatcher, but I think it will never 
be fixed in the ibmtts engine itself. 

In french, some punctuation characters are preceded by a 'non-break space' 
character (0xc2 0xa0 in utf-8). When Speech Dispatcher processes a text
string for ibmtts, it converts it from utf-8 to cp1252 (I think) because
ibmtts doesn't understand utf-8. After this conversion step, non-break 
spaces are replaced with the code 0xa0. I finally come to the problem: 
when ibmtts encounters a word followed by this character (0xa0), it spells
this word instead of pronuncing it normally. 

I'm currently looking for a way to solve this issue in a clean way. 
Is there a way to replace every non-break space by normal space in the 
Speech Dispatcher code ?

I mainly use speech-dispatcher with orca and I've tried to fix the problem 
by adding an entry in the orca's pronunciation dictionary. But, as the 
non-break space is considered to be a space by Orca, it doesn't work. 

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards

Olivier
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