Well, I would rather ask you to visit unicode consortium site at
www.unicode.org/
Unicode is an international standard which encopasses all languages.
English, as we are using it on computer, is in ASCII code. In this code each
character has a value between 0 and 255. Its limited range does not allow
many characters to be encoded in machine language. Unicode includes values
greater than 256. These values are represented in hexadecimal values. For
instance, Bengali Chandrabindu, the first character in eloq.sbl is
represented by U+0981 in hexadecimal value. Its decimal equivalent is 2433,
certainly much greater than 255.
Old versions of Jaws did not recognise unicode characters. This feature was
introduced probably in Jaws 6.2. Users of window 2000 and higher can install
regional languages from the windows cd. Perhaps all these regional languages
are detected by Jaws. If you don't have the eloq.sbl file in place, Jaws
should still announce the unicode value of a non-ASCII character, such as
character 2433.
For a test, here is the sendspace link for my eloq.sbl file:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pyvkpq
Remember, I have modified this file already. You can search the Freedom
Scientific site for the original eloq.sbl file. I am not sure if I have made
it clear.
With best regards,
Amiyo Biswas.
Cell: 9433464329
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amar Jain" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] jaws help
Dear Amiyo Sir,
Well, going in detail, can you please tell me what is this unicode feature
of Jaws? I haven't heard of it at all.
Unicode characters I have heard, but can I get further details on this
feature of Jaws?
Thanks and Regards,
Amar Jain.
-----Original Message-----
From: Amiyo Biswas
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AI] jaws help
Hello,
Jaws cannot read Indian languages. However, you can make Jaws read Kannada
or Tamil character by character using the unicode capability feature of
Jaws. If you have 512 mb of Ram, you can download eloq.sbl and paste it on
to the Jaws / Shared Settings folder. Remember to rename the old eloq.sbl
file as eloq.old or something like that for backup. For the eloq.sbl file
and instruction, search on the freedom scientific web site. I use this
process for detecting Bengali characters.
It is not much of use though. Still I can write a letter in Bengali using
this process. Jaws will read like this:
KANNADA ANUSVARA
KANNADA VISARGA
I have further edited the eloq.sbl file to make it pronounce Bengali
characters in a little different way.
I have heard ESpeak reads Tamil. I am not sure if it reads Kannada too.
With best regards,
Amiyo Biswas.
Cell: 9433464329
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amar Jain" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] jaws help
Hmm, I don't know which of the southern languages are supported, but
espeak supports some southern languages surely. So, just give it a try.
Install espeak, then change the synthesizer and then language.
Google for espeak, it is there on sourceforge.net.
Regards
Amar Jain.
-----Original Message-----
From: tirumangalam sandeep
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AI] jaws help
dear ai members
how to make jaws read tamil or kannada text
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