Reported by jteh on 2008-03-18 20:13
Currently, when speaking repeated characters, NVDA simply truncates any repititions after the first five characters. For example, if 10 dashes are encountered, this will be announced as 5 dashes only. This gives no indication of how many repititions actually occurred. It would be more useful to announce the number of times a character occurred if there are more than a certain number of repititions; 2 repititions is probably ideal. For example, two dashes would be announced as "--", but three dashes would be announced as "- 3 times".

Questions

• Should this be configurable?
  • Is the current behaviour preferable in some cases? If so, there could be an option to switch back to the old behaviour.
  • Should the number of occurrences of a repeated character before this behaviour is triggered be configurable? I think this is overkill; 3 occurrences (2 repititions) should be fine, as "- 3 times" is the same number of syllables as "---".
    Blocked by New text symbol processing framework #332