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>Hi,
>
>Regarding the message below, I'm the Lynn he refers to, so perhaps someone
>will listen to what I am doing and confirm it for him. . My terminology
>may not be correct for everything, I just understand how it works. I have
>more details on how to set this up, but here it is in brief: I didn't
>believe myself how easy it was when I got this working. I am running
>Windows XP and set Hebrew as a second language. I got a table that blind
>people in Israel have created to work with JAWS which basically sets the
>numerical equivalents of the characters that represent the Hebrew
>characters to equal the Hebrew braille characters. Since these characters
>use a different set of encoded characters than English, you can do this
>without much effect on how English is displayed. Once I saw how this
>worked, I was able to set up a similar table in WindowEyes. The same could
>be done for Arabic and Greek - actually, it is the Greek character set
>that Hebrew replaces.
>
>Having done this, I am able to read in proper Hebrew braille off my
>braille display, any HTML document or web site that is "logically
>formatted" which is the newer method iof displaying Hebrew. The old way of
>getting Hebrew and other right-to-left languages was to cut each line
>where you wanated it to end and tell the browser to display it as is. This
>would make it or anything else displayed in Hebrew "backwards" as Hebrew
>is displayed from right to left and Hebrew braille is displayed from left
>to right. Not ideal, but I can deal with it. Actually, when I am reading
>Hebrew email, I save the message as a text file, re-name it as HTML, and
>then can read it in the proper direction. I can write in Hebrew by using
>Alt+space to switch languages. depending on the program, switching
>languages this way works differently, but it is definitely possible.  The
>limit to all of this is that you need to switch braille tables often. I
>need to switch braille tables when I switch between files that are in
>Hebrew print and Hebrew braille and there is no hot key to do this so it
>is at least 7 keystrokes each time. Well, a little scripting could
>alleviate this.
>
>Lynn
>
>
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>At 06:39 AM 3/4/2004, you wrote:
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>>I am forwarding the following message from another list.  Please, if you
>>want to respond, write to Ben directly.
>>Thank you.
>>Rachel
>>From: "Ben J. Bloomgren" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Hi. I know that I posted a message on this topic before, and a lady =
>>named Lynn had contacted me privately about it, but I would like to know =
>>if it is possible to access other alphabets from an English-based system =
>>solely using the Braille display. I have heard conflicting reports. =
>>Freedom Scientific people told me that I have to base it upon the =
>>languages that Jaws supports. Then Lynn said that that is false. I know =
>>not what to believe. Please clear it up.
>>Ben