Hello Don,
Normally, for a single accented letter in a UEB context, you would use the
accent sign provided in UEB. For example:
The word café
(Braille): ,the word caf^/e
The acute accent is shown by dots 4-5, 3-4 preceding the letter e.
Notice that you do not need any code switch indicators.
Here's the problem: UEB currently does not have an assignment for the German ß
character. It is on the Code Maintenance Committee's list of things to do.
In the meantime, I have seen a couple of approaches, including:
1. As George mentioned, replacing the ß with ss - which has, as far as I
understand, near equivalent meaning in German.
2. Using a transcriber-defined modified letter sign and explaining this special
usage in a Note to Braille.
For example, dots 4-5, 4-5-6, 2, before the sign 2-3-4-6.
I trust this helps,
With best regards,
James.
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Subject: [ueb-ed] Single German character in a UEB context: Gießen,
Hello,
I have been through all of the UEB documentation I can find and still do not
find an answer to this particular question.
I am transcribing documents into UEB. One of the documents contains a single
German word that includes a non-UEB symbol. In particular, `Gießen`.
The non-Roman, non-UEB symbol `ß` is represented in German with the same
dot-pattern as UEB strong contraction for `the` (dots 2346). Using German
braille, all Roman letters in that word are identical to UEB Roman letters.
All of the UEB documentation I find that provides guidance on representing
non-UEB symbols provides code-switch indicators for words and passages, but I
find no reference to a code-switch indicator that would operate on a single
symbol (see Rules of UEB, section 14, p. 199).
From this it appears I should use the code-switch indicator for a word and
transcribe `Gießen` using the combination of UEB-Roman and non-UEB symbols.
Following Rules of UEB, 14.2.3, p. 203, a transcriber's note should precede
this use of code-switch indicators and non-UEB symbols.
Is my interpretation of the rules accurate? Is my conclusion accurate?
Best,
_don
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