[nabs-l] French and Braille

[Michael D Ausbun]

This really isn't much help, but I know when I was studying Spanish, there were special symbols for any letter with an accent. Perhaps this is why it is coming out of peculiarly, because French might do the same thing (by that, I mean it probably has an independent braille code). Perhaps, if I might be so bold to suggest, have the people running it through the embosser strip the accented letters of the special accent, replacing it with a normal accent sign. This has helped in the past for me, although I just got used to having the special symbols after a while. 

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> On Feb 10, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Julie McGinnity via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> French speakers, this question is for you.
> 
> As part of my masters program, I am required to take a number of
> languages.  This semester I am taking French.  I would like my
> handouts in Braille.  My university has Duxbury and an embossor, and
> the people  here want to do this Braille for me.  I also really really
> want my tests in Braille so that I can read them rather than listen to
> JAWS read in a language with which I am not familiar.  My question:
> how do you translate a file into grade one French Braille?  These are
> word documents that my instructor writes up that we are feeding
> through Duxbury.  The language switching we are attempting isn't
> working.  When I receive the handouts, there are strange Braille signs
> I have never seen before in the middle of words.  And I cannot throw
> these handouts on the Braille Note Apex because they do not translate
> there either.
> 
> I remember translating German handouts on the Braille Note and don't
> understand why this is apparently (according to my Braille note)
> unavailable in French.  The same goes for Duxbury.  I enjoy the
> language and am succeeding at speaking it, but spelling it is proving
> rather difficult without studying the Braille.  So many reasons we
> need Braille in front of us rather than just audio!  :)
> 
> Any guidance with these issues would be much appreciated!
> 
> -- 
> Julie McGinnity
> National Federation of the Blind performing arts division secretary,
> Missouri Association of Guide dog Users President, National Federation
> of the Blind of Missouri recording secretary,
> graduate Guiding Eyes for the Blind 2008, 2014
> "For we walk by faith, not by sight"
> 2 Cor. 7
> 
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