Hi Alex,
Yay, a HumanWare staffer contribubtes to the BN list!!!!! Thank
you so much for clarifying this issue for us! It is great to see
that you guys read the list and sometimes contribute to it! I
think you could be of great help to us!
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Bec" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:29:04 -0500
Subject: [Braillenote] just one more question about braille
tables.
Hi,
I'll add a few things to that discussion about braille tables to
try and
wrap up that issue.
The only way to support other languages without changes in
KeySoft's
internals is indeed through computer braille. I suppose that
with the
help you've received so far, you managed to get a functional
Hebrew
computer braille table, which lets you read Hebrew text material
on your
braille display (obviously with no speech). But now that you're
talking
about input, it gets a bit harder knowing you have a QT. On a
BT, your
new computer braille table would be involved in the keyboard
input, and
theoretically that would work for inputting Hebrew wherever
computer
braille is in use. The entry of a QT is not dictated by braille
tables
however, but by a keyboard layout, which is part of the Windows
CE
keyboard driver architecture, and therefore would require some
deep
changes on that side that are extremely unlikely to happen.
Your mPower or Apex has layouts for UK and US English and for
French
Canadian Qwerty and Azerty keyboards. Only one of them is being
used,
depending on the specs of your machine. Point is, there is no
Hebraic
keyboard layout on board to make your qwerty keyboard generate
that
character set.
That leaves you with the only option to use your qwerty keyboard
in
Braille mode (using the home row) so as to enter dots
combinations that
would be mapped according to your Hebrew table. That means,
you'd want
to operate in computer braille and use a braille entry on your
qwerty
keyboard. I believe some have been down that path trying to
input
Spanish characters on a QT, and I can't really remember what the
outcome
was, apart from being not as ideal as having a Spanish layout
(the
BNlist would remember!), but still better than having to go
through the
Insert menu and the Unicode tables.
Try to create a TXT document in KeyWord, then go to the options
about
keyboard input and you should have a choice between standard
keyboard
(qwerty) or computer braille (the dots on the home row), and it
should
be possible to input Hebrew involving your computer braille
table.
I sincerely hope this clarifies a few things and helps you
achieve your
goals, and that it could be useful for others too.
Alex
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Alex Bec
Software Design Engineer
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T. +1 450 463 1717 ext. 344
F. +1 888 871 4828
Skype: alexandrebec
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