I have the same problem to! Also, it dies when I am on the net sometimes.
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From: Tom Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 1:44 AM
Subject: Accented Characters Kill my Dectalk PC
> Hi HJ staff,
> While reading my e-mail just moments ago, I ran across a message that
> absolutely killed my Dectalk PC card. It knocked out speech as surely and
> as quickly as the infamous "pragmatically" killed past versions of
> Eloquence. The offending deadly message came from a sender whose last name
> had an e with a grave accent in his last name. The only way that I could
> tell was by rebooting with JFW running Eloquence, then later switching to
a
> rival screen reader with its Dectalk PC driver loaded. That driver handled
> the e with a grave accent just fine, thank you. So, fellas, what say you?
> Don't you think it's time that that problem gets addressed? That problem's
> been around for at least a couple of years. BTW, this occurred with JFW
> 3.31.35, its Dectalk PC driver and a PC1 card running version 4.2c. I'd
> sure like to see either a fix for this coming real soon or a surefire way
> to avoid playing Russian roulette any time I use my DEC PC card with JFW
to
> read anything that might have nonstandard characters. How about it, guys?
> Cheers!
> Tom
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