[NFB-Braille-Discussion] Hebrew Braille and Orbit

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

As you probably know, an Orbit Reader does not have a braille translator in it. It can represent any kind of braille you want, including forms of 8-dot braille, but you need a program on another device to do the translation to and from text. The tool that APH provides uses the LibLouis translation library, which comes with a large number of tables for different languages. If you used that program, called send2braille, you would need to alter some batch files so that your translation table of choice would be used. 
So I would say "prepare for some complexity."

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20542  202-707-0535
Nls.loc.gov
The Preceding opinions are my own and not necessarily those of the Library of Congress, NLS.


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Subject: [NFB-Braille-Discussion] Hebrew Braille and Orbit

 Hebrew Braille and Orbit

Hi guys,

Glad to see Foreign language discussion; Hebrew, indeed, does not use contractions, and as far as I know Spanish does not with the exception of accented letters. If one is a native speaker of Hebrew, one would not need vowels; so the words themselves are just consonants. However, if like me an old person, one learned Hebrew Braille as an adult (I’m self-taught) vowels are needed, at least at first. So the structure of the language may influence the choices of contractions or not. French Braille, for example, is more contracted than English.

Now for my question: If I use an Orbit, which I teach with and am considering buying for myself, and put a vocalized Braille table in the Orbit, Can I also read unvocalized Hebrew such a s  in Newspapers?  Hope we are back to a Digest form rather than attachments and hope this posts ok. I don’t think I’ve done attachments for a list before: a New adventure.

Thanks

Batya-Miryam (aka Buffa) Hanse
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