Re: Braille

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:04:39 -0800

My understanding of the english vs. american braille is that your system uses the first possible contraction, regardless of where it falls in the word. So, as you said, appear would have the ea symbol, followed by the r. American braille doesn't break up sylabols, (though that doesn't hold in your example) but we'd use the ar symbol as you pointed out. Unfortunately, I'm coming up blank on examples of english vs american braille for cross sylable splits, but I do remember seeing them when I read a book written in english braille many many years ago, and it confused me quite a bit until I got used to it. :) I haven't read the specs for this universal braille yet, so can't comment on how it's doing things, but my understanding was that they wanted a single code to replace all the various systems, computer, nemeth, english, american, and foreign languages. I'm not sure they've managed to cover all of those basis, especially since the whole computer braille code was specifically designed to be an exact 1 for 1 match for the ascii character set, and nemeth has it's own way of doing things, but if they've managed to pull it off, I'd be surprised. Are they planning next to unify the written alphabet as well, so russian, chineese, arabic and african languages all use the same set of symbols? It's silly to contemplate such a thing, because each language has symbols denoting sounds in that particular language. I submit braille codes served the same purpose, and except for the english vs american codes, I don't understand how they plan to squeeze all the others into a single unified code. It's specifically because each code was designed for something different that made them the way they were, and throwing that all away, just because someone somewhere didn't like learning different codes seems silly to me, but then again, except for a short survey I participated in a couple years ago, nobody asked my opinion about it all, so what's a person to do? 

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