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author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2021-01-27 01:21:47 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-01-27 15:12:04 +0300 |
commit | cae2181b498fe52885022772465a7610fd7701f4 (patch) | |
tree | 609beb0c4ab07ec3922eb778495bac16f3e48e52 /Documentation | |
parent | 117422521e6c212d32ed7b5d3561cc1e936f8669 (diff) | |
download | linux-cae2181b498fe52885022772465a7610fd7701f4.tar.xz |
speakup: Add documentation on changing the speakup messages language
This documents how to use speakup_setlocale to set the speakup messages
language.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210126222147.3848175-5-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt | 48 |
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt index 5ff6a0fe87d1..977ab3f5a0a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt @@ -1033,7 +1033,9 @@ speakup + keypad 3, you would hear: The speakup key is depressed, so the name of the key state is speakup. This part of the message comes from the states collection. -14.2. Loading Your Own Messages +14.2. Changing language + +14.2.1. Loading Your Own Messages The files under the i18n subdirectory all follow the same format. They consist of lines, with one message per line. @@ -1066,8 +1068,50 @@ echo '1 azul' > /speakup/i18n/colors The next time that Speakup says message 1 from the colors group, it will say "azul", rather than "blue." +14.2.2. Choose a language + In the future, translations into various languages will be made available, -and most users will just load the files necessary for their language. +and most users will just load the files necessary for their language. So far, +only French language is available beyond native Canadian English language. + +French is only available after you are logged in. + +Canadian English is the default language. To toggle another language, +download the source of Speakup and untar it in your home directory. The +following command should let you do this: + +tar xvjf speakup-<version>.tar.bz2 + +where <version> is the version number of the application. + +Next, change to the newly created directory, then into the tools/ directory, and +run the script speakup_setlocale. You are asked the language that you want to +use. Type the number associated to your language (e.g. fr for French) then press +Enter. Needed files are copied in the i18n directory. + +Note: the speakupconf must be installed on your system so that settings are saved. +Otherwise, you will have an error: your language will be loaded but you will +have to run the script again every time Speakup restarts. +See section 16.1. for information about speakupconf. + +You will have to repeat these steps for any change of locale, i.e. if you wish +change the speakup's language or charset (iso-8859-15 ou UTF-8). + +If you wish store the settings, note that at your next login, you will need to +do: + +speakup load + +Alternatively, you can add the above line to your file +~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. + +If your system administrator ran himself the script, all the users will be able +to change from English to the language choosed by root and do directly +speakupconf load (or add this to the ~/.bashrc or +~/.bash_profile file). If there are several languages to handle, the +administrator (or every user) will have to run the first steps until speakupconf +save, choosing the appropriate language, in every user's home directory. Every +user will then be able to do speakupconf load, Speakup will load his own settings. 14.3. No Support for Non-Western-European Languages |