[nabs-l] Braille for accented letters

[jonte bouchard]

Hello,
I recently got a BrailleSense U2. It is great, except for the
disappointing fact that I cannot figure out how to write French
accented letters using ascii or unicode symbols.
Since I am studying in France, this is quite important.
I still use my old PacMate for writing assignments, but it could crash.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Jonte Bouchard

On 10/20/12, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> This is kind of a sticky subject. As an Opera singer I am given a multitude
>
> of Accented letters in my music, but I cheat a little because I often know
> what the word is supposed to be, so the accent isn't a big surprise. Also,
> the transcriber often times puts the accents in the special symbols
> section.
> But do you have the English Braille American Edition Revised 2002?
>
> http://jjkvc.org/Documents/English%20Braille%20-%20American%20Edition.pdf
>
> In Appendix B you will find all of the braille signs for accented letters
> and these are what the braille transcriber uses.
> The grave and umlaut are over the critical letters.  For French grave it's
> dots 2346 over the E and 12356 over the A and 23456 over the U.
> The Italian is the same with the addition of I which is 34 and O which is
> 346.   German umlaut over the U is 1256; over the A 345; and over the O 246.
>
> It is NOT simple.
>
> I'd make a cheetsheet if I were you.
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mauricio Almeida
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 11:01 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille for accented letters
>
> greetings,
>
>
> while i am a fluent portuguese speaker, we only learn grid one in brazil,
> and I bet the accented braille is different for italian.
> that being said, if you find any resource, please let me know as this is
> definitely something good to have.
>
> best regards,
>
> Mauricio ALmeida
> Vice president: Michigan association of blind students
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 5:51 PM, minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering if any of you know of a resource that gives you the
>> braille for accented letters? I'm taking Italian and would like to
>> learn what the braille is for letters such as a grave, e grave, i
>> grave, etc. Any help would be much appreciated. :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Minh
>>
>>
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