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1. x0 (x0@dragonscave.space)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 02:18:12 JST x0

   • nellie_m
   • Devin Prater
   • Rosalín Anne
   • Jesse

   @SingingNala @nellie_m @devinprater @JesseF8693 I've seen some iOS apps somehow change the dictionary for the app alone, the official birdsite app and some others somehow made VO say hash tag when encountering it, it doesn't by default. I think the OneCore TTS voices on Windows also say hash tag by default when it's followed by text. I could write a regular expression for NVDA to handle it probably, although for me personally saying the phrase hash tag takes longer to say than number, despite both being ideally two syllables. The longer it takes to say, the less inlines I'd handle. This might be why some people hate it so much if their synthesizer says something more verbose, such as pound sign or number sign.

   • x0 (x0@dragonscave.space)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 02:18:58 JST x0

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     • nellie_m
     • Devin Prater
     • Rosalín Anne
     • Jesse

     @SingingNala @nellie_m @devinprater @JesseF8693 Such an expression would also seem strange to programmers that have to deal with C preprocessor macros and other things that mirror their syntax, hash tag include <stdlib.h>, anyone? And unsure what it would do with shells that use the octothorp as their prompt character, usually bash in root mode I think. Depends on whether there's a space or not. Also Discord and IRC channels, headings in markdown, and fragment identifiers in links.