Hi Claude: Orca will do an uppercase check (string.decode("UTF-8").isupper() in Python) on the characters and change the pitch of the speech voice that it uses to speak the character. If you keep the translation so that it has uppercase letters, the behavior to change the pitch should carry over to the new locale. That is, I would choose "A GRAVE" from the below since it is in all uppercase.
At some point, we plan to work on verbalizing the notion of capital letters (e.g., saying "capital a grave") in addition to changing the pitch. This will be an option, however, and will consist of us optionally adding some word for 'capital' if the user wants it. I'm guessing the position of the word for 'capital' is going to depend upon the locale, though, and we'll need to work with you i18n folks on that. :-) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354459 Hope this helps, and thanks for your work! Will PS - I'm headed out for a long weekend. Should be back by Monday at 3PM EDT. On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 11:04 +0200, Claude Paroz wrote: > Hi Willie, > > I have a question about upper case pronounced letter, eg. "A GRAVE". > Does the system automatically tells this is an uppercase letter or > should I write it ? Is the "GRAVE" case important? > > What's the best option among these possibilities (majuscule=uppercase): > A GRAVE > a majuscule grave > A grave > > Thanks. > > Claude > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n