[access-uk] here's a weird one in jaws
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:45:42 -0000
HI.
I have a colleague who's name includes a few acute signs. When read in Outlook
it acts very very oddly. Without the special signs, his name is Miceal (with an
I acute and an A acute at the end). When you look at it in Outlook with all the
acute signs in place, it weirdly refuses to show the C in the middle in
Braille. But if you arrow right through it, you can hear all the characters,
though the Braille display pauses on the I acute (second character) while the
speech moves ahead and says C.
If I cut and paste it out of Outlook into this email it reads as míċeál. So
basically it puts in a space where the C should be when you arrow right, yet
jaws does say a C sound when reading the name as a whole. In Braille it just
shows the name without the C as above.
So does jaws think it's got a C in it or what? Braille and speech are
misaligned and when cut and pasted out of its original environment it behaves
differently again.
Odd.
Damon Rose
Senior Content Producer bbc.co.uk/ouch
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