Reported by nishimotz on 2012-11-03 06:19
Japanese language users sometimes type half shape symbols (left paren, right paren, etc.) within input method editor.
It gives the candidates including full-shape symbols and half-shape symbols, which are corresponding to the typed characters.

When symbol announce level is not 'all', such symbols may not be announced within candidate words.

Setup: Windows 7 sp1 x64 Japanese, NVDA_snapshot_2012.3-5637, Microsoft Speech Platform (Japanese)

Procedure:

• run NVDA as default language (Japanese)
• disable 'Automatically report all available candidates' of Input Composition settings
• set 'Punctuation/symbol level' to 'none'
• open Notepad
• select Microsoft Japanese IME
• enable Japanese conversion
• type left paren, right paren
• press space twice to open the composition window.
• the candidates consist of two items: (1) 'half-shape left paren, half-shape right paren', (2) 'full-shape left paren, full-shape right paren'. If half-shape parens are selected, it is not announced.
• if 'Punctuation/symbol level' is set to 'all', both candidates are announced, but it also contains 'comma' between two symbols.