Hi Barry, Sorry about the delay, I was out of town for a few days. > I seem to recall that in Australia, use is made of an MHEG > service. I don't know if a regular teletext service is > available -- you will see this in the results, when you have > a tuner capable of scanning. I look forward to finding out... :-) > trivially converted to braille or spoken. I'm not sure about Braille..., what format do they originate in? Is it tv signal, or some kind of text guide or something? > the MHEG services, as they seem to place more importance on > the on-screen appearance, yet they do use a TrueType font. > > Anyway, while conventional teletext is not simple ASCII-like, > it is based on a hamming of a limited character set which can > be converted back to a standard 128- or 256-character set > font, and of course the normal characters can be displayed as > braille. oh... ok > > Now, here is an example of some of the useful information > to be found on a full teletext service, to show that, if it > were available to you, you might find it interesting. This > is a page giving inter-bank exchange rates from the Euro to > your own currency, and is meant as an example (it's in german, > but should be trivial to understand) > > /GIP IG*** PHOENIX Mi 21.01.09 18:01:45 > PHOENIX.text 2/2 > Devisenkurse > Letzte Datenabfrage Diff. Kurs- > 21.01.09, 18:00 Uhr Vortag zeit > > USA....... (USD) 1,2857 -0,20% 17:59 > GB........ (GBP) 0,9369 +0,94% 17:59 > Schweiz... (CHF) 1,4767 -0,13% 17:59 > Japan..... (JPY) 112,9800 -2,35% 17:59 > > Kanada.... (CAD) 1,6365 +0,37% 17:59 > Südafrika. (ZAR) 13,0970 -1,05% 17:50 > Hongkong.. (HKD) 9,9990 +0,07% 17:49 <snip> Thanks, that looks interesting, so does it all depend on what service is available here in Australia? > However, my point is that if this type of service is broadcast > in your area, you may find it interesting and useful, as you > would be able to make use of the text content within. > Indeed, thanks very much. Cheers, Daniel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
