[GWN] Interesting BSP Discovery

[Daveed Mandell]

		I wrote a document yesterday on the BSP in contracted braille.  One 
line contained a braille dash, dots 3-6, 3-6.  I saved the document 
as a .doc file, and what do you know, that braille dash turned into 
the following software code:

the letter "x", followed by dots 4-5, 4-5, followed by the lowered 
numbers 227, followed by dots 4-5-6-8.  I have found many other 
similar codes in various files I read with the BSp, with different 
numbers, such as 240 and 224.  I believe all these codes represent 
punctuation marks.  I also often encounter numerous instances where 
the 8-dot computer braille vertical bar sign, dots 1-2-5-6-8, appears 
close up to words and numbers.  When that happens, the words or 
numbers in question are translated as computer braille, not 
contracted braille.

I must emphasize that, while the BrailleNote has its own braille 
idiosyncracies, similar software codes do not creep into the braille 
on that notetaker.  This has been an ongoing problem with the Sense 
notetakers, and it is frustrating to note that neither HIMS nor GW 
Micro has been able to solve it, working with Duxbury Systems.

What I haven't been able to determine yet is if these software codes 
appear on the visual display.

--Daveed--