Festival Encoding

[Iacopo G]

Hi,
I was wondering what text encoding is used by Festival. For example, I was looking at words not in the lexicon and it look like Festival didn’t recognise the letter “é” in a word such as “sauté”. In particular it returns the following:

“saut” not in lexicon. lts give (“saut” nil (((s ow t) 0)))
“▒” not in lexicon. lts give (“▒” nil nil)

Is this something related to the encoding of the text I am passing through? My sentences are encoded in utf-8.

Thanks,
Iacopo

[Simon]

Festival is showing its age: it doesn’t support UTF-8. It only supports ASCII.

[Iacopo G]

Thank you, yes it works now!

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