eSpeak and Screen readers?

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <17736.59228.900914.484672 at gargle.gargle.HOWL>,
   Gilles Casse <gcasse at oralux.org> wrote:
> Just for the notice, Speakup at the moment works with 8 bits charsets
> (not UTF-8). 

Just to note, eSpeak should be able to accept either UTF8 or the 8-bit
character set which is appropriate for the language (eg ISO 8859-1 for
English).  It should be able to recognise automatically whether the
text is UTF8 or the 8-bit character set.