Re: help on bug #307566

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 10/04/2006, at 11:43 PM, remus draica wrote:
> I am trying to solve bug #307566
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307566) opened against
> gnopernicus.
>
> One of gnopernicus function is ability to speak a text character by
> character in military mode ("alpha" for "a", "bravo" for "b", etc). In
> English this is solved. All those "military characters" are marked for
> translation. But, a lot of languages have other characters. Non of  
> those
> "other characters" get spoken in this approach.
> <snip>
> 2. use a file for every language. In that file, only the proper  
> range is
> present and contains the "military characters"
> for example, for English:
>
> 	unicode		"military char"
> 	unicode(a)	N_("alpha")
> 	.....
> 	unicode(z)	N_("zulu")
>
> I prefer the second solution.
Remus, do we have any idea what the military-speak for different  
languages is like?

For example, my language is made up mostly of accented vowels; it's a  
tonal language. I am sure the military services have their ways of  
making sure each of these characters is distinct in radio  
transmission, for example (the origin of the "Alpha, Bravo ..."  
behaviour).

I haven't been in military service, so can't speak on this. I'm not  
too keen on asking people who have been: the survivors are usually in  
bad shape, in more ways than one. :(

Does anyone here know if the armed forces for different countries  
have their own way of distinguishing letters in radio transmission?  
(Is this in the CIA Factbook, for example?)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
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