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/breyl/ (Often capitalised) A class of ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=writing systems">writing systems, intended for use by blind and low-vision users, which express ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=glyphs">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 ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=binary">binary, it is based on groups of eight bits/dots and its development began in the 1820s, at the same time ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Charles Babbage">Charles Babbage proposed the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Difference Engine">Difference Engine. Computers output Braille on ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=braille displays">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)

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