Duxbury Systems continually revises DBT to respond to braille rules changes, make fixes, and to add new features. Below you will find our latest changes since the last release.
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Bulgarian: Now uses dots 46 as the capital sign. | |
Dutch: Many punctuation problems fixed; capitalization and emphasis modernized per the latest published rules. | |
French: Many significant changes; handling of new characters, improved forward and back translation. Notable features are support for emphasis and for mathematics in braille-to-print. | |
Hebrew-American: Now makes a proper transition from Hebrew to UEB in the print-to-braille direction. | |
Languages of India: Better support for punctuation and dependent / independent vowels in braille-to-print (all languages of India). | |
Italian: Better handling of the period (full stop) and dots 34 in braille-to-print (distinguishing i grave from slash). | |
Norwegian: Better handling of the period (full stop) and some other punctuation characters in braille-to-print translation. | |
Russian: Now prevents use of the "ae" combined character, with improved comma handling in braille-to-print. The DBT Russian template now uses capital letter indicators by default. This improvement also applies to the Belarusian, Chuvash, Tatar, Udmurt, and Ukrainian templates. | |
Spanish: Fixed two punctuation characters in braille-to-print translation. | |
Thai: Updated the braille-to-print translation direction to match recent work in print-to-braille. |