I believe the reason for the symbols being the way they are has to do with
the way ASCII is organized. The capital letters, which are dotted in
8-dot Braille also, preceed the lower-case letters in the ASCII table.
Thus, so do the dotted symbols. So as someone already proposed, JAWS is
only following existing precident, the preferences of the masses for a
different precident notwithstanding. :-)
The rest of this message is a partial quote for which the attribution
vanished in a flury of editing performed by yours truly...
> As far as I know, these symbols are defined that way by BANA or somebody in
> the
> Braille code world. Either they had a good reason at the time which has never
> been clear to me, or they found some really good drugs while making the
> decision. Anyway, the definitions are reversed from what we would expect,
> e.g.,
> <left-bracket> is dots 2.4.6.7, but shift-<left-bracket> is 2.4.6. The Braille
> translation programs all do this as well.
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