Hi Dima. You have some awesome ideas. I wanted to study Russian at university and could not because no one could access a Russian Braille code at the time, let alone anyone to teach me. This would open more doors for those of us who are interested in languages.
If your last idea is implemented, this may open doors for Japanese Braille or, as you say, music Braille or nemmeth and others. For the moderator and the staff reading this, I would second Dima's motion. I think Instant Messenger is on its way, though I don't know much about it. I'm not that keen for a start-up sound because it can make you rather conspicuous in lectures or meetings and others might not agree. I'm also not sure how the speech synthesizer issue would be handled so will leave that to others. As for the games writing facility, for me personally, this is less important than various other more practical things which I'd like to see, but I understand that many of you would like to write your own games. I still say what I said months ago and that's that I'd like to see access to trivia games as well. Cheers! Michele -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daredevil Supremacy Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 11:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Braillenote] extended Unicode tables Hello, dear HumanWare BrailleNote developers, My name is Dima and I love to use the BrailleNote mPower BT32. I was told that to meet the customers' needs, you take requests and tips for the future improvements of KeySoft. 1. I wish that in the next version of KeySoft, there will be the complete Unicode table list. Because I was very disappointed by learning to use the name your keystrokes and dot combinations were available but a whole list of the Unicode characters was absent. For example I went on a foreign site such as Russian and there was only gibberish and the Braille display had unreadable text. I thought of finding out the hexidecimal of every character I needed but when I used hex value to give me the decimal character in KeyWord and it did not have the table for the character. The Braille display still had unreadable symbles. So, the expended tables should have unicode characters such as 0x1072 which becomes a character 4210. 2. Also it would be interesting to find out if an instant messenger will be created for the KeySoftthat could use the same functionality as Key-mail. 3. Instead of having the speech synthesizers built in, it be a importable feature that other synthesizers such as Sapi5 lhtts and others could be installed. 4. Make Russian be available as speech and Braille language. (If not, I am willing to send you all the information needed to make the extended unicode table list such as the characters themselves and their hexidecimal and decimal values.) 5. Interactive fiction game program that will be KeySoft accessible to use and to write your own game. 6. Make KeySoft not as much an open platform but as more customizable close platform. Things such as sounds, and having a startup messege that isheard when the BN is on. 6. In the Pronounciation dictionary make space between words be possible to enter, for example: word to correct? "main menu" incorrect spelling? "mPower ready main menu" Please messege me back with ways I can better keep contact with you in order to make the most of my product 7. A similar feature could be made such as the Pronounciation dictionary that could be used to change braille representation of characters of a different braille code to the prefered, for example the correct word: "quality" the changed presentation? "dots 4,5,6q" which is the word quality in Grade 3 Braille. A feature like this will be priceless to those who use different Braille codes to have presentation in that code such as braille music notation, Nemeth code... Please email me back and maybe I can Provide the necessary information and different ways I can be involved with the BrailleNote mPower development and function enhancement. Thank you. It would be interesting to receive comments from other BN users. ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.25/669 - Release Date: 4/02/2007 9:58 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.25/669 - Release Date: 4/02/2007 9:58 PM ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
