[duxuser] Re: Other Odd Symbols
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:33:15 -0000
This is why it is so important to do as Ann has done, and query
unusual things which appear at the time. Duxbury may not be able to
provide an immediate fix. But as often as not, they can explain why
something is happening. It can then be fixed in future versions or
Service Packs.
For those who are technically inclined, DBT has moved towards what is
called Unicode. In the early days of computing, we were limited to 64,
128 and finally 256 characters in what we called a "Character Set".
If we then wanted to use special accented characters, or non-Roman
characters such as Greek or Arabic, we had to go through a convoluted
process of changing character sets
In very simple terms Unicode is a standard which lists virtually every
print character in existence and exceeds 40,000 characters. So now we
have a means of identifying each character uniquely, which in turn
makes it slightly easier to deal with special characters in braille.
George.
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Catherine Thomas
Sent: 07 November 2008 01:32
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Other Odd Symbols
I recently transcribed a simple conference agenda from what had been
an
MS-Word document. Among the odd symbols which I came across were three
different types of apostrophes, a symbol meant to stand for
"trademark"
and something separating times such as 9:00 to 9:30 that I had never
seen
before. All of these symbols translated into unrecognizable braille
things. I can't replicate them here because I don't know what print
characters they actually were. Is it common practice in MS-Word for
ordinary symbols such as apostrophe to be replaced by something else?
Catherine
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