From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net (resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net [IPv6:2001:558:fe21:29:69:252:207:37]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93D927906A for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from resomta-ch2-13v.sys.comcast.net ([69.252.207.109]) by resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net with comcast id mgj91p0012N9P4d01gjDjv; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:43:13 +0000 Received: from eklhad ([IPv6:2601:4:5380:4ee:219:21ff:feb9:ba8d]) by resomta-ch2-13v.sys.comcast.net with comcast id mgjC1p00C08MP5701gjCMz; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:43:12 +0000 To: acsint@lists.the-brannons.com, Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com From: Karl Dahlke Reply-to: Karl Dahlke User-Agent: edbrowse/3.5.2 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:43:12 -0500 Message-ID: <20150031114312.eklhad@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20140121; t=1422722593; bh=4iPjzEGFs34OnikPm5dpWsrO/znKu4B3b7KT4N3WLgQ=; h=Received:Received:To:From:Reply-to:Subject:Date:Message-ID: Mime-Version:Content-Type; b=JiUrncRIdIIERTlv7s/MxHJ9eqwUgslPuNkEzxA/o18lWWM98D9wJzVnhHxqWSKRj BUh0AqmjWu/5DECJhXZimScROegep2+smqkfvCX0ka6XrTsnUA0duQIUMCrzjX3LW2 Y1ZPK3LwbXDKBq2SHu6TPs+Vb31RTEo1L4hJ+qnnJab2bdLpf19JCkSXDjrghHQb3I 5FWGDc1spZDKyPeJZ99IgxqjXu/e/mbWDywSeUyghYIkJYpQCjG2l9+tOlJkQ+enUP M0CGgADoiEtyCI35ScXKqi01YzC/g5xgHBzDqqAg02v3Y8DSuOIu99MG40nR6sMh/s EwU5se/TNI0oA== Subject: [Edbrowse-dev] High Unicodes X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:46:15 -0000 This is where speech adapters and edbrowse intersect, thus posted to both groups. Twitter, and I'm sure other social media, make it easy for people to embed emoticons in their messages. These are rendered by edbrowse, then spoken by speech software. An example is 😀 for a grinning face. So, what should we do about this? Right now both my worlds have a partial solution. Edbrowse translates a few common high unicodes into words, but of course this only happens when browsing html, and the resulting words are hard coded English. My jupiter speech has the right solution: set pronunciations in your config file. Other speech adapters do this as well. The line in my config file looks like this. x1f600 grin That's all you need. I think edbrowse shouldn't be doing this at all. Just turn the &#codes into unicode, then utf8, then to the screen, and let speech software say the symbols as you wish, in your language. And this would work for all files everywhere, not just html that edbrowse browses. But, some have said that some speech adapters aren't this flexible, and wouldn't it be nice if edbrowse would continue to perform some of these translations, so at least surfing the web would work properly. Well maybe, I'm not sure, but if we retain this functionality it should probably be configurable, not hard coded. Karl Dahlke