This has led to conflicts between us when I worked on his books, like the Govinda-līlāmṛta. For example, Arabic is written right-to-left, but Arabic braille is written left-to-right.A feature of Gadadhar Pran Prabhu's writing is the heavy use of Bengali or Sanskrit words. This convention is followed even for the languages that are written right-to-left. The following table shows the Unicode Braille characters representing various braille cells.īraille alphabet uses these cells ⠀ -Īs per the international convention, braille is always written in left-to-right direction. One or more braille cells may represent a letter, number, punctuation or a symbol. The braille script designed by Louis Braille uses tactile patterns made with six raised dots arranged in a 3 x 2 matrix, called the braille cell. Louis wrote the entire article being dictated from the newspaper in his newly developed script and then read it back word-to-word. His headmaster gave him a dictation to test his new script.

It took him two years but, in 1824, he finally created the Braille script with a six-dot system, in 1824, just at the age of 15 years.

Braille began working on a tactile script as an improvement over night writing. There he met Charles Barbier - the inventor of the night writing script (also a tactile script). Louis Braille studied at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris.

Gradually, by the age of five, the Louis Braille lost sight in both of his eyes. Due to lack of antibiotics, soon, the infection spread to his other eye too. At the age of three, little Louis was playing in his father's workshop and he accidentally stuck a stitching awl in one of his eyes. Louis was born in Coupvray, France on 04 January 1809. Modern Braille script was invented by a French inventor named Louis Braille. Louis Braille: Inventor of the Braille Script

Also, except for kṣ and jñ, there are no conjunct letters which makes Bharati braille quite like Grade-1 braille. There are no vowel diacritics in Bharati braille. Also there are significant differences between Bangla braille used in India and Bangladesh.īharati braille is based on 6-dots braille alphabet and it is very close to the English braille. It is notable that Urdu braille of Pakistan is not written using Bharati braille standard. This standard has also been adopted by Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.īharati braille can be used to write languages like Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Urdu, Hindi and Sanskrit (Devanagari), Gujarati, Bengali, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil in braille. All major Indian languages can be written using Bharati braille. Bharati braille (Hindi: भारती ब्रेल), also known as Bharatiya braille or Indian braille, is the unified braille standard for the Indian languages.

Bengali to sanskrit alphabet