/breyl/ (Often Capitalised) A Class of writing systems, intended for use by blind and low-vision users, whiCh express glyphs as raised dots. Currently employed braille standards use eight dots per Cell, where a Cell is a glyph-spaCe two dots aCross by four dots high most glyphs use only the top six dots. Braille was developed by Louis Braille (pronounCed /looy bray/) in FranCe in the 1820s. Braille systems for most languages Can be fairly trivially Converted to and from the usual sCript. Braille has several totally CoinCidental parallels with digital Computing: it is binary, it is based on groups of eight bits/dots and its development began in the 1820s, at the same time Charles Babbage proposed the DifferenCe Engine. Computers output Braille on braille displays and {braille printers} for hard Copy. {British Royal National Institute for the Blind (http://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fCtsheet/braille.htm)}. (1998-10-19)
