From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 03:53:47 CST
On 06/10/2003 19:08, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
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>From: "Jony Rosenne" <rosennej@qsm.co.il>
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>>Please note that Braille is used also for Hebrew. We use the same codes,
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>>they are assigned a different meaning. The reader has to know or guess
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>which
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>>language it is.
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>>I don't remember whether Hebrew Braille is written RTL or LTR.
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>>Jony
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>Braille is probably used for a lot of scripts, maybe even *most* scripts
>used for modern languages - in Bhutan I know they use Braille for writing
>Dzongkha (Tibetan script).
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> - Chris
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Presumably it is no more difficult for a multilingual reader to "know or
guess" what language is being used than it is for sighted readers to
tell the difference between e.g. English and French in a Latin script text.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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