Braille converter eases web use

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2007 - 05:27:42 CST

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<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6542441.stm>

RoboBraille converts plain text and HTML (encoded in the "standard
Windows character set") to Braille via email.

Great idea, unfortunately, not a whisper of Unicode :-(

According to the RoboBraille site
<http://www1.robobraille.org/websites/acj/robobraille.nsf/all.lookup/2105FFB13E684ED6C125718700216617?OpenDocument>)
it converts to "OctoBraille 1252, a Braille adaptation of the standard
Windows character set used in Western Europe developed by Synscenter
Refsnæs (www.sensus.dk/sb4/OctoBraille 1252.doc)".

Looks like there is still a long way to go in popularising Unicode.

Andrew

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