Subject: locale category for sound

From: [email-masked] (Erik M. van der Poel)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 19:26:40 +0900

Dear i18n Subscribers:

Do any of you know (or have ideas) about locale categories for sound
(as in voice, or some other kind of sound)?

We could just lump this together with LC_MESSAGES, but then users
wouldn't be able to have screen messages in one language with voice
messages in another language.

One might also argue that sound input and output should be able to be
set separately, but maybe this is going too far.

Applications might generate messages (1) on the screen only, (2)
through the speaker only, or (3) in both text and sound, depending on
the user's preference.

Comments? Ideas? Existing implementations?

Regards,
EvdP