Update characterDescriptions.dic

[smbgsrini]

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Summary of the issue:

Kannada characters discription

Description of user facing changes

Added Braille Code for each Characters

Description of development approach

Testing strategy:

Known issues with pull request:

Code Review Checklist:

• Documentation:
  • Change log entry
  • User Documentation
  • Developer / Technical Documentation
  • Context sensitive help for GUI changes
• Testing:
  • Unit tests
  • System (end to end) tests
  • Manual testing
• UX of all users considered:
  • Speech
  • Braille
  • Low Vision
  • Different web browsers
  • Localization in other languages / culture than English
• API is compatible with existing add-ons.
• Security precautions taken.

[CyrilleB79]

This PR is blocked until due to translation framework current changes; see #16310 (comment) for details.

As per #16310, regarding the current PR, unless NV Access says otherwise, let's keep it open until we know precisely how translation of caracters and symbols work in NVDA 2024.2.

[michaelDCurran]

For now we will take symbols and character descriptions here (via Github pull request).
@smbgsrini Can you further explain why you have added braille descriptions for each character? I guess I can sort of see how this can help disambiguate characters via another known modality such as Braille, it is just I have never seen any other language do this so far. Has this been done in any other screen reader in the past?

[smbgsrini]

Dear Sir, I have added braille codes for Kannada characters. It is Reasonable idea to understand Kannada pronounce spoken by espeak tts. These Kannada characters are having similar pronunciation announcing by espeak. ಙ 0C99, ಞ 0C9E, ಣ 0CA3, ನ 0CA8. Already Tamil has this function. More than 1000 blind persons are working in the government sector. It is essential feature for us.

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