Disclaimer: this has already been reported through email, this is not a support request but a bug report.
Bug
When trying to read in Italian language a file containing accented characters, Festival isn't able to open if it is in UTF-8.
As soon as the file is re-coded as lat1 (ISO-8859-15), everything works as expected.
Steps to reproduce
Install Festival with Italian voices (see below for details, it's been tested on multiple platforms)
_festival --tts Ciao_UTF8.txt_ returns the following error
MX Linux, Festival 2.5.0, with packages festival, festival-doc, festival-freebsoft-utils, festlex-cmu, festlex-ifd, festvox-italp16k, festvox-italpc16k, speech-dispatcher-festival
Artix Linux, Festival 2.5.0, with packages festival-us, festival-freebsoft-utils (AUR), festival-italian (AUR), sox Applied patch as of issue #31 , using attached ~/.festivalrc
Temporary workarounds
Re-encoding files to lat1 (ISO-8859-15) with recode, but it is a problem when trying to use festival with other software like Calibre or speechd, that still recommends festival as synthetizer.
Avoid using accented letters in Italian is practically impossible and can't be suggested as a solution.
Disclaimer: this has already been reported through email, this is not a support request but a bug report.
Bug When trying to read in Italian language a file containing accented characters, Festival isn't able to open if it is in UTF-8. As soon as the file is re-coded as lat1 (ISO-8859-15), everything works as expected.
Steps to reproduce
Platforms
Temporary workarounds Re-encoding files to lat1 (ISO-8859-15) with recode, but it is a problem when trying to use festival with other software like Calibre or speechd, that still recommends festival as synthetizer. Avoid using accented letters in Italian is practically impossible and can't be suggested as a solution.