Hi, List!
I think I have figured out a way you can read German umlauts and Spanish
accents using a U.S. BrailleSense Plus:
If you receive an ASCII text document written in German or Spanish, change
your reading preference to computer braille. Open the document as a text
file. For goodness' sakes, *don't* translate it into braille! The document
will be displayed in correct braille for U.S. readers. The umlauts and
accents will be there.
I used my PC and DBT 10.6 to create a test document, saved it as formatted
text, opened it with the BSP and it read perfectly.
As you American users already know, U.S. braille for foreign language books
is in uncontracted braille and there are special symbols for the umlauts and
accents and for special punctuation like inverted exclamation point and
inverted question mark. I did not use punctuation in my test document.
Another way to read German or Spanish is more complicated and you will need
a PC with the Duxbury translator in it. Import the document into DBT.
Insert the codes or styles to create the foreign language. Translate the
document into braille, save it as a .brf file. Copy the .brf file onto your
BSP. Open the document like you would for any braille file. Everything
will read properly, even the punctuation.
I hope this helps those who need it.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
Because the BSP doesn't support foreign languages, you won't be able to use
speech.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
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