Vietnamese dictionaries for mobile phones

human language /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

Computers output Braille on braille displays and brailleprinters for hard copy.

(1998-10-19)