From: Frej Bjon <fbjon_at_abo.fi>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:06:04 +0200

Actually, if you look in a unicode spec, you'll find that all of those
have a name. It's just that the name can be rather long sometimes. For
example: acute accent, copyright sign, left angle quotation mark ...

Here's a nice reference for the Latin charset:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin1/3.html

Perhaps an abbreviated version of those names can be used, unless the
character has a native pronunciation in the current language?

Frej

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:38:24 +0200, Manuel Dejonghe <manuel_at_dejonghe.de>
wrote:

> Maybe unspeakable characters should be signalled otherwise ? Or should
> fall back to another similar (in sound) character? Naa, forget the
> last idea.
> I imagine it to be very bad for blind people to get no feedback on the
> mute characters.
>
> lImbus
>
> On 1/2/06, Frej Bjon <fbjon_at_abo.fi> wrote:
>> I don't have an Archos myself, but looking at a screeshot of the
>> recorder
>> in the manual, I came up with what should be all characters. I also
>> figured out the larger layout for the iRiver H100 series in case anyone
>> needs it. I'm not sure if the H300 series has a different layout though,
>> since it has an even larger screen.
>>
>> I'll put both layouts at the end of this message and in two text files
>> on
>> the web:
>>
>> Archos link:
>> http://www.abo.fi/~fbjon/rockbox_vk_archos.txt
>>
>> iRiver link:
>> http://www.abo.fi/~fbjon/rockbox_vk_iriver.txt
>>
>> Those text files and this mail should be UTF-8 encoded, just so you
>> know,
>> if something doesn't work. I'll also put them in the BlindFAQ on the
>> rockbox.org wiki. There's a lot of highly unusual characters in the
>> iRiver
>> layout though, I haven't heard of any language needing e.g. a paragraph
>> sign.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Frej Bjon
>>
>> Here are both the layouts:
>>
>> Archos:
>>
>> ABCDEFG !?" _at_#$%+´
>> HIJKLMN 789 &_()-`
>> OPQRSTU 456 §|{}/<
>> VWXYZ.,0123 ~=[]*>
>>
>> iRiver:
>>
>> ABCDEFG abcdefg !?" _at_#$%+´
>> HIJKLMN hijklmn 789 &_()-`
>> OPQRSTU opqrstu 456 §|{}/<
>> VWXYZ., vwxyz.,0123 ~=[]*>
>> ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆ ÌÍÎÏ ÈÉÊË ¢£€¥¦§(c)(r)
>> àáâãäåæ ìíîï èéêë «»°ªº¹²³
>> ÓÒÔÕÖØ ÇÐÞÝß ÙÚÛÜ ¯±×÷¡¿µ·
>> óòôõöø çðþýÿ ùúûü ¬¶¨
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:13:53 +0200, David Pedersen <dav-ped_at_frisurf.no>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > As a lot of the characters on the VK are not spoken, I was wondering
>> if
>> > anyone could do us blind users a favor. Or, maybe it is already
>> > available, so please direct me:
>> >
>> > Could anyone provide a clean text file, that shows the actual layout?
>> > like this:
>> >
>> > abc...
>> > ijk...
>> > opq...
>> > vwx...
>> >
>> > It would be very much appriciated, and helpful, as I then could
>> memorize
>> > where to find special characters, like the underscore and parenthesis.
>> > And if it is not yet there, Could such a text file be placed on the
>> > webpage, for future reference/users?
>> >
>> > Thanks alot!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Received on 2006-01-03