[access-uk] Re: here's a weird one in jaws
- From: Patricia Fraser <pfraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:22:23 +0000
Hi Damon,
The c in the middle of the pasted copy isn't a plain c - it has a little
dot on the top. Is it a Turkish name? It sounds like you'd need to tell
Jaws about Turkish characters, or else work in UTF-8?
> 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 BBC Vision Learning
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Patricia Fraser
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Quantum Technology UK
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