[Pibe-division] FW: German

[DrV]

Hi David,

Here are some additional thoughts.

1. To see the German braille alphabet go to
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brailleschrift. It is in German, but scroll
down to see the alphabet. If you want to read the text of this in English,
go to http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&sl=en&tl=lt#<http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&sl=en&tl=lt>&
paste in the Wikipedia web address & select the appropriate fields to
translate from German to English.

2. According to the Duxbury website (www.duxburysystems.com/lan_german.asp),
it looks like there are several forms of German braille, including: fully
contracted braille ("Kurzschrift"), elementary contracted braille
("Vollschrift"), or uncontracted braille ("Basisschrift"). I suggest you
contact Joe Sullivan at Duxbury for some leads.**

3. I would thus consider contacting the foreign language experts at BANA (
www.brailleauthority.org) & CTEVH/CTEBVI (www.ctevh.org).

Best wishes,

Eric V

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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Hyde, David W. (ESC) <
david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us> wrote:

> One of our teachers sent this to me, and I don't have an answer. Do any of
> you?
> Hi there.  Has anyone had students who read Braille take German?  My
> student and I are getting ready for German. I next year and  have figured
> out how to Braille the German umlauts on the Braille Note, but we are having
> trouble finding the Unicode characters for either the German B (called the
> Eszett), Greek B, or Latin B (which all look very similar to one another,
> and the teacher doesn't mind which one we use).  Can anyone help?  Unicode
> is foreign to me....my student seems to understand much more than me!!
>  Thanks so much.  Take care and have a great weekend.  Dawn Soto
>
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