Dear Phyllis and George
Thanks ever so much for the very prompt replies.
I wanted to quote the Unicode number in my email but forgot to do so.
U+00DF is certainly correct.
I obviously misled George (and maybe many others) in my short document
on German braille for people who know English braille. I will swap the
uppercase and lowercase letters round to avoid that in the future - and
encode the braille with Unicode Braille Patterns while I'm about it. The
sharp S (ess-tset) only has a lowercase form. When all the letters are
capitalised "Straße" ("street") should be written "STRASSE" although you
often see the officially incorrect "STRAßE". U+1E93 is a small z with a
dot beneath it.
I very much look forward to being able to spread the information on the
new symbol when it is assigned.
Many thanks and best regards
Vivian
Am 20.03.2016 um 15:16 schrieb Phyllis Landon (Redacted sender
phyllisland for DMARC):
There currently is no UEB symbol for the ess-tset but it is on the To-Do
list of the Code Maintenance Committee (the ICEB committee responsible for
UEB). We have been directed to assign a UEB braille symbol for the
lowercase symbol (U+00df) and for the uppercase symbol (U+1e93).
Best regards,
Phyllis
Phyllis Landon
Chair, ICEB Code Maintenance Committee
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Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: March-20-16 6:53 AM
To: ueb-ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ueb-ed] Re: Non-English alphabets *Not Appearing* in UEB Rule Book
What is described in Unicode as "Latin Small Letter Sharp S" (U+00DF) is
currently translated by Duxbury as double s.
However, in a paper I suspect you wrote (V. Aldridge,
2002.04.26/2005.02.16/2008.06.18) it suggests that it is only used as an
upper case character. (And that is how I remember it from my school days.)
Here you say:
“The alphabet is identical to the English braille alphabet with the
following additions:
@ Ä ä
9 Ö ö
8 Ü ü
! ß “
George
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Sent: 20 March 2016 08:58
To: ueb-ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ueb-ed] Re: Non-English alphabets *Not Appearing* in UEB Rule Book
Hi to everyone,
I'm on the Braille Authority of the German-Speaking Countries and live in
Switzerland. As I was born and spent the first three decades of my life in
the UK I do, however, have a special interest in English braille. I don't
use UEB much and consequently don't have many problems with it, so I am
generally a passive reader of this mailing list.
Margaret's question made me realise that I could pass on a question that I
have been asked a few times by teachers in Germany. How do you write the one
letter that is only used in German and isn't a Latin letter with an accent:
ß? It developed from a ligature sz, doesn't have a capital form and
represents a double s after a long vowel in words like "groß"
("big"). It looks more or less like the small Greek letter beta or remotely
like a capital B. In Switzerland we don't use it and just write ss, but in
the other German-speaking countries that counts as incorrect spelling.
I couldn't find anything in the UEB documentation to help me but maybe I
overlooked something.
Has anyone the answer or any ideas?
Thanks a lot
Vivian Aldridge
Am 18.03.2016 um 11:46 schrieb Margaret Bradshaw:
Greetingsvarious contributors of this email group, and I always look forward to your
Let me preface this query by saying how much I appreciate the input of the
thoughts.
I have already looked at Sections 13 and 14 in the UEB Rule Book, but wantto know about a situation that doesn't seem to be covered there.
In an English-language text containing a single word in a language with adifferent alphabet, is there a *generic* way to handle this situation in
UEB?
For example, if there is a person's name in which there is a non-English(nor French, nor German, nor Spanish) character which is not a "known"
letter, what can be done with this in UEB?
Thoroughly made up example: In SEB, if you came across something sort oflike a T with an unknown twirly bit on it, the generic accent (dot 4)
followed by a T would do the trick.
Do we have any similar "patch" in UEB?in the UEB Rule Book.
Again, I am *not* asking about any of the characters which may be listed
Thanks in advance!including those who also have other disabilities, are fully included and
Margaret
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