[duxuser] Re: Other Odd Symbols
- From: "Barrett, Don" <Don.Barrett@xxxxxx>
- To: "'duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:42:52 -0600
Do you think Duxbury will ever automatically replace the 145 146 147 etc. with
their proper ASCII equivalents such as quotes, apostrophes, question marks,
etc?
Don Barrett
Section 508 Coordinator
U.S. Dept. of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
LBJ, 1W116
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 453-7320
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:33 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Other Odd Symbols
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.
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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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