[brailleblaster] Re: UTF-16 Gemoetric Shapes
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:55:30 -0500
The Nemeth code has a means for a transcriber to define a symbol for an
arbitrary shape. The symbol must begin with dots 2346 and must be
explained in a trranscriber's note. The example they give is 2346-16 for
the shape of a church.
I think that having the list of symbols that John G offers could be
useful.
John B
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:45:31AM -0700, John Gardner wrote:
> This is a big problem, because there is a wide variety of Unicode symbols
> that are used as bullets or for other non-informational purposes. And of
> course that same symbol might be used for something else - such as a
> geometrical shape. There are several thousand such Unicode symbols. I have
> a list of most along with their pronunciations in dictionaries formatted for
> NVDA, Window-eyes, and Jaws. I can make them available for download if
> anybody wants them. I have no clue how one might systematically make a
> Braille representation except by Unicode value.
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> There is a whole set of geometric shapes in UTF/Unicode. In a book I was
> just looking at, "Applying Life Skills" the character \x25C6 for example is
> a black diamond and is really being used like a bullet. I added it to my
> local chardefs but now I'm wondering if there is a more systematic approach
> that is appropriate for things like this. I can imagine that in some
> textbooks these characters might not be significant or might denote
> something else. Maybe there needs to be an easy way in the UI for users to
> define how such characters are treated.
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