Steve, I believe this may be DecTalk rather than JFW.
I have Dectalk PC 1. The ansi character seems to disable the Dectalk card
thus requiring rebooting to get speech back.
It can happen on a web page also: try Encyclopedia Britannica on Line.
REgards,
Richard Hutcheson
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From: Steve Matzura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 4:02 PM
Subject: ANSI Characters Stop JAWS Cold
> I've been noticing a strange trend with JFW lately. I don't know
> whether it's happened since I installed something new, or just when,
> but I've finally narrowed it down to this: If I come across a word
> that has a high-ANSI character in it, such as the umlaut in the word
> spelled R umlat-O L F as in Rolf, JFW will stop dead cold, freeze my
> computer for about 30 seconds, unfreeze it, then stay silent until I
> reboot. Anybody else experiencing this?
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