Re: [orca-list] State of Orca's unicode support?

[Willie Walker <walker willie gmail com>]

Hi Zachary:

You might be able to create an ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py file that
defines character names.  The file might look something like this:

import orca.chnames as chnames
chnames.chnames[u'\u00ac'] = "not"

Note that I haven't tried this, but I think it should work.  Let me know
how it goes!

Will

On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 22:52 -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi All,
> There is a particular roguelike computer game which I'm interested in 
> trying to play, which traditionally used OpenGL but recently created an 
> ncurses version.
> It doesn't use plain ascii like most other games of the kind do, but 
> instead Unicode.  Specifically, it uses Codepage 437, from the old DOS 
> days, smiley faces included.
> I was wondering what the state of Orca's support for this was?  Is it 
> capable of reading the characters by name, or better yet can I define 
> pronounciations for them myself so I might be able to customize the 
> reading a little?  The game is meant to be played in a terminal or over 
> ssh, not in its own window.
> In case anybody's curious, the game in question is Dwarf Fortress, from 
> www.bay12games.com.  It's something of a cult classic, and if it were 
> playable would be right up my alley.
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
> Best and thanks,
> Zack.
>
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