Bonjour, Charles. Firstly, from the main menu, press space bar o to get into options menu, then press b for braille display. Space down till you get Braille Computer Table, and then press s and you will be changed back to the United States computer table. To get back to the French braille computer table, press the space bar with dots three and four until it says something like C B I S F or French Canadian Braille, and then you will be able to read and write French again.
As for the grade two, go into options menu, press b and go down to preferred reading grade for French? Decide on grade one or computer braille, which is by far easier at this stage. When producing a French document or a French e-mail, you have to go into the setup options menu from KeyWord, or the setup options menu from KeyMail, and change the language of the document from English to French, or vice versa. With the version of the French module I have, I have to write in French grade one to produce French grade two. So, if I write, for example, the word "du", I am shown a space followed by a lower h followed by a space, the grade two sign for "du". Because of the confusion, and the fact that French blind people stopped using these particular computer braille tables in 1994, making them ten years out of date, I always set my French to computer braille, and my display and keyboard entry to eight-dot computer braille. French people can cope with these settings better, I am told. I do hose that I have been able to help a little. Boone chance!!! Warm regards, bien cordialement, Jim Taylor.
