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"Braille is frequently portrayed as a re-encoding of the English orthography used by sighted people. However, braille is a separate writing system, not a variant of the printed English alphabet." In what sense is it not a re-encoding of the Roman alphabet (to a binary code of six tactile bits)? In English it appears (I am sighted) to transcribe all the quirks of English orthography. Strictly speaking it is not a writing system, but an embossing system. I think they are trying to say that Braille letters do not resemble Roman letters. == Hugh7 ( talk) 07:47, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
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Is there a website that publishes (freely) the primary tables for A=
and
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on their home page/first linked page, for English braille or grade2 braille? -
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This article is much better now! -- CJ Withers ( talk) 14:31, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
The page has been edited to use faster co-templates to format the Braille data, with Template:Braille_box and Template:bc2 for text characters. Several users had noted, in late November 2013, how they could no longer save edits to the page due to the 60-second timeout with " wp:Wikimedia Foundation error" and timing tests revealed over 95% of reformat time (perhaps 65 seconds) had been spent in Template:Braille_cell. The new, faster templates are intended to support all options of {braille_cell}, but further expansion of those templates is still underway. Meanwhile, the page " English Braille" now reformats within 20 seconds and can be edited to make other format changes. - Wikid77 ( talk) 14:48, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
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Can someone with more knowledge than myself check out the sample section on this page? It seems incorrect to me, but maybe I just don't have the requisite background knowledge to understand it. If it is wrong, it should be corrected, if it is right, it could be helpful to explain why it doesn't match up 1-1 as one might expect. Calvinballing ( talk) 17:11, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
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I'm in the process of learning Braille, and have just started to understand enough of the ICEB's The Rules of Unified English Braille to start being able to spot differences with this article that either aren't mentioned or aren't clear and will probably be able to start making some of the maintenance edits referenced above within a month. However, given the state and title of the article, I'm skeptical that the best approach is to modify this article to match UEB as proposed by the maintenance tag. ("The article should primarily describe UEB, not EBAE.")
To make the problems I see clear and succinct, these are the questions that come to mind:
Instead of modifying this article to primarily describe UEB, I propose almost all the techincal discussion (specification of encoding) be migrated to a new page for EBAE (titled "English Braille American Edition") and the technical discussion (again, specification of encoding) of UEB be written into the page for Unified English Braille (again, that already exists). Then this English Braille page can link to both of those when appropriate, and otherwise be reserved for history that contexts both and descriptions that apply to both (of which there is plenty already in the summary, History, and Sample sections).
To precisely itemize that proposal, using EB, EBAE, and UEB as abbreviations for the pages here on Wikipedia, I would suggest to:
I see a few potential issues with this proposal or its implications that I would like someone either clear up or affirm are not a problem:
As it stands, I'm not yet equipped with the knowledge of Braille required to make sections in the Unified English Braille page that reflect its technical use, which feels crucial to my proposal. So I plan to wait until then, seeing what discussion comes about here in that time, before I make any of these major changes. --jandew ( talk) 13:22, 30 August 2023 (UTC)