betsy,
have you ever seen the &;339 instead of apostrophe sign? You'd sometimes
see it in RSS feeds, for example.
I don't know many of the technical details, so I'm offering explanations
from what I think I understand. There are at least three different
character codes in use in our Western European standard based windows at
present: ANSI; ASCII; and Unicode. Unicode is supposed to be the latest
and greatest, combining all possible characters from all languages, the
other two being not necessarily inter-operable - some characters don't
compute/translate; but for one thing, our speech synths can't speak many
nonstandard characters, and for another, screen-readers written in
english may not know how to represent non-English standard characters.
I'm not sure there's anything you can do at your end, except to tell
your correspondents that they are using characters your computer system
etc., doesn't understand. If you want to look at your Character map -
you might find that in Accessories - you could do so; but I don't know
how accessible it will be.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get JAWS to treat â ?T as a n
apostrophe
Hi Flor,
Is there something I can change? I must say, I'm
not at all clear what this means.
Recently Flor Lynch wrote:
Thanks to my not sending as Unicode, the problem revealed itself to me
more acutely. Your character set is misrecognizing it, thus it is like
an 'error code' put there to represent the sign (which doesn't really
exist as such) according to your present character set.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users]How to get JAWS to treat â?T as an apostrophe
What is the sign [symbol] actually called?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press" <[email protected]>
To: "jaws users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 10:57 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] How to get JAWS to treat â?T as an apostrophe
Hi all,
I tried pasting those symbols into the JAWS
pronunciation dictionary and told it to say
nothing when it saw them, and I tried telling
JAWS to treat those symbols as an apostrophe, but
no joy. They seem to occur more and more often
these days. I'm not sure, but I think it has
something to do with things like smart quotes in
Word, and it used to come from my friends who
have Macintosh computers, but now I see it a lot.
As an example, the word can't comes in as canâ?Tt, but not from
everyone.
Ideas?
Betsy
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