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How do the letters in Esperanto that are special like the ĝ, ŭ, ŝ show up on a braille display and do they show up automatically or are they skipped by the braille display? (self.Blind)
submitted by terriblemondaysforme
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modulus 2 points 3y ago
Unfortunately the answer to this is, it depends. There are several factors, but particularly the support of the screen reader for that code page, and the braille table in use.
With NVDA 2019.2 and the German 8-dot braille table it comes with. those characters are shown as follows:
* ĝ: dots 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8.
* ŭ: dots 3, 4, 6, 8.
* ŝ: dots 2, 3, 4, 6, 8.
The g and s with the diacritic have a bit of a resemblance to the base characters. The u does not, (though it could be seen as a mirrored u with an extra dot).
But, for example, with Spanish 8-dot braille table those characters aren't available, and the braille display shows them as unicode code points: \x011d, \x016d, and \x015d. Not very intuitive.
Worth pointing out as well that there is an Esperanto braille table available, which of course has those characters in it.
With NVDA 2019.2 and the German 8-dot braille table it comes with. those characters are shown as follows:
* ĝ: dots 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8.
* ŭ: dots 3, 4, 6, 8.
* ŝ: dots 2, 3, 4, 6, 8.
The g and s with the diacritic have a bit of a resemblance to the base characters. The u does not, (though it could be seen as a mirrored u with an extra dot).
But, for example, with Spanish 8-dot braille table those characters aren't available, and the braille display shows them as unicode code points: \x011d, \x016d, and \x015d. Not very intuitive.
Worth pointing out as well that there is an Esperanto braille table available, which of course has those characters in it.
terriblemondaysforme [OP] 1 points 3y ago
How could you use the Esperanto Braille table?
modulus 1 points 3y ago
Depends on the screen reader. With NVDA, go to NVDA menu -> preferences -> settings -> braille and choose the table from the list in there.
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