Version 

Changes

7.0 

July 2025

 

The back translation in German now distinguishes between "CK" and uppercase characters (dots 4, 6) when a single vowel precedes the uppercase character with or without lowercase 6. This means that words such as "iPhone" or "eBraille" are also correctly translated back.

 

Sequences of hyphens and equal signs from length 3 onwards are passed through unchanged in both directions during conversion.

 

The paragraph sign does not end the "Everything in a big way" presentation.

 

The announcement mark for mathematics font only works if it is not immediately followed by a white space.

6.06 

September 2024

 

In German shorthand for the blind, single brackets, exclamation marks and question marks before a control character are given the cancellation point 6 in order to avoid confusion with monotonous abbreviations. This can have an effect before line or page breaks and after headings in the table of contents. The back translation in German now distinguishes between "CK" and uppercase characters (dots 4, 6) when a single vowel precedes the uppercase character with or without lowercase 6. In German Braille, dot 6 to mark units of measurement or lowercase is now also inserted in lowercase letters after a micron μ in mathematics.

6.05 

July 2024

 

The text conversion and back-translation functions can now also process Braille characters in UTF-8 from the Unicode range U+2800 to U+28FF. During text conversion, they are passed through unchanged (transparency mode). In the case of the back translation, they are taken over and translated back without points 7 and 8.

6.04 

April 2024
For lowercase and uppercase characters, the context (math or text) is now taken into account when translating back. A lowercase character before a punctuation mark is converted as a lowercase character and not as an angle bracket. A question mark within a consistently uppercase word is also considered an uppercase letter (question marks can occur as Unicode surrogates). In the case of the back translation into basic and full print, the characters for "ö", "ü" and "ß" were not converted if they appeared alone. Unused characters such as "6", "7", "{", "%" and "&" are passed through unchanged.

6.03 

July 2023

 

The performance of shorthand translation has been accelerated by improved indexing ("best mismatch" algorithm).

 

For strings that can be confused with multiform abbreviations, a "grade 1 sign" is only set in UEB if there is an exact match without a plural S.

 

The back translation of integer fractions in UEB in numeric mode did not work. The same applies to the back translation of the single and capitalized word "Were".

 

The announcement sign '. for full script in UEB erroneously also worked at the end of the word.

 

Spaces before or after a forward slash have been removed when only one side is adjacent to a letter and not both sides.

 

The question mark at the end of the sentence was incorrectly interpreted as quotation marks when it was followed by a parenthesis when translated back into UEB.

 

Stand-alone angle brackets in UEB were not displayed correctly in the vicinity of arithmetic symbols.

 

The translation of mathematical expressions in NEMETH code in UEB has been improved.

 

The back translation in French has been improved. For example, words containing an O with an alloyed E, such as "Oevre", and words ending in "TRE", such as "notre", "votre", etc., including word combinations, are now also translated.

 

The new character for internal capitalization in German will only be used if all parts of the text beginning with a capital letter are at least 3 characters long.

 

The sound groups of the full script are now also recognized after an apostrophe in the back translation if there is a cancellation point or other announcement sign in front of it.

 

The string "uh" is now implemented with cancellation point 6 to avoid confusion with the abbreviation "at all".

 

In the case of parenthesis expressions with square brackets, it could happen that a closing bracket was removed.

 

The quotation marks at the column separators within a CSV file are now correctly mapped to the start or end of speech.

 

If an asterisk is used within words such as "employees" to indicate the gender-neutral form, the shortening of "IN" is omitted for clarity.

6.02 

April 2022

 

The space between a root character <pt146> and the preceding root exponent is removed.

 

A hyphen between letters is only recognized as a dash if there are no more than 2 letters before and after it.

 

For expressions with round brackets in math font, spaces outside the brackets were incorrectly removed.

 

Individual capital letters such as "A" for "ampere" were not marked as units of measurement if they were at the end of mathematical insertions.

 

Repeating digits in periodic decimal fractions can now be placed in parentheses within mathematical insertions without causing a renumbering sign.

 

Numbers are also implemented with bullet points instead of spaces if they are preceded by an arithmetic symbol.

 

The colon was incorrectly recognized as part of a time specification if it was surrounded by spaces and followed by a subtraction (confusion with possible time span).

 

The space between decimal fractions and integer fractions is preserved. The lowercase letters 'a' to 'c' and 'x' to 'y', like 'o' and 'u', are not marked as units of measurement

 

If the direct point indication <pt4> is placed before an arithmetic symbol, the space in front of the arithmetic symbol is omitted in mathematical insertions. In this way, the cohesion point can be realized in the simple fraction notation.

 

The hyphen was not recognized as a word delimiter within highlights, which meant that superfluous discontinuation signs were placed in certain situations.

 

The dollar sign is retained as a currency symbol in the back translation if it is not preceded by any letter.

 

Stand-alone question marks, exclamation marks and dots in brackets are given the cancellation point 6 in shorthand to avoid confusion with monotonous abbreviations.

 

The "S" with V-circumflex is now recognized as a foreign language accent letter and processed correctly. When translating "S" back with announcement point 4, a case distinction is made as to whether it is the accented letter or a dollar sign (in the vicinity of numbers).

 

Within mathematical insertions, Greek letters can now be specified as units of measurement with an announcement mark for a foreign-language insertion.

6.01 

October 2017The single numeral sign is no longer announced with point 4 in full text and in a mathematical context.

6.0 

April 2017This version supports the German Braille system for the first time after the decisions of 14 November 2015 in Frankfurt am Main. This also includes the system of mathematical writing in German Braille after the resolutions of 30 November 2013 in Basel.
This version supports the Braille system for the first time. Unified English Braille" according to the rules of the International Council on English Braille (ICEB) from 2013 (Second Edition).

5.07 

April 2017
The consonant sound groups of the full script are no longer recognized as potential units of measurement and are therefore shortened and converted into full script without cancellation dot 6 even if they stand alone. The hyphen between numbers is no longer incorrectly displayed as a minus sign, even when hyphenation is active.

5.06 

April 2016If an acronym or words in permanent capitalization are followed by a space and then a punctuation mark, the space between the string and the punctuation mark is now removed. So far, the first character of the acronym has been mistakenly swallowed. Strings such as "hm", "hmm", "mh" and "mmh" are no longer recognized as potential units of measurement and thus no longer receive a cancellation point 6 before a sentence period.

5.05 

October 2015The characters for "cross" and "double cross" are now represented by one or two plus signs in the German module.

5.04 

April 2015
A lowercase "x" surrounded by spaces between numbers or within a mathematical equation is converted as multiplication. A colon surrounded by spaces within a mathematical equation is converted as a division. A bullet point for numbers that are divided with spaces is inserted even if the last group of numbers is placed before a punctuation mark. If one or more annotation asterisks are followed by the abbreviation "IN", this is separated from the asterisks by a space.

5.03 

October 2013
In English and French, the module now adheres to the rule that the character for "series of capitalized words" or "series of highlighted words" is only used from four consecutive words in capitalization or with highlighting. So far, it has already been used for three consecutive words.

5.02 

October 2011In front of lowercase units of measurement, point 6 is now always placed to indicate the lower case, regardless of the degree of Cutback. A distinction is made between units of measurement and commonly used abbreviations that are not case-sensitive. For arithmetic characters before numbers at the beginning of the line, a space is no longer inserted when arithmetic characters are implemented without an announcement sign. The article character is no longer incorrectly placed in front of capitalized words if their first letter can be confused with a Roman numeral. Spaces between the German abbreviation "des" and numbers are retained.

5.01 

January 2010The back translation now also takes into account the paragraph and article characters.
Dates with a 4-digit year are now converted with a superscript year with an additional numeral symbol if numbers in lowered notation are activated. This corresponds to the traditional spelling of dates in Braille. Single sound groups of the full script are now also used before a punctuation period, but here announced with point 6 to avoid confusion with monotonous abbreviations.

5.0 

October 2009The module has been expanded to include Spanish Braille (full text only). In French, single letters are only marked with a cancellation sign if the abbreviations represented by this letter are not deactivated.
A dash that is represented by 2 hyphens, as in English, is recognized as such if it is between 2 words without spaces. The article character is also implemented after parentheses. Spaces between numbers and units of measurement are eliminated only if the unit of measurement is 4 characters long or shorter. Special representation of the gender-neutral form with "inside" within lowercase words. Punctuation marks before an apostrophe are not provided with the announcement point 6 because the apostrophe can be used as a single quotation mark. Spaces after numbering are retained even if followed by a breaking point or uppercase character. The back translation of nouns preceded by an ellipsis has been improved.

Bug fix: 

In the case of simple insertions in computer braille, the discontinuation sign was doubled in English and French if the insertion did not end at white space.

4.04 

May 2009The implementation of mathematical insertions has been improved: the character for "equivalent" (dots 26) can now be entered with a tilde and the character for "fraction bar" (dots 1256) with a vertical bar as opposed to the slash for "division".

4.03 

November 2008

 

Word/number compounds that can be used as bullets do not result in the "all capitalized" representation. These strings of drawings such as "A1", "A2", "B1", "B2", etc. are used to label table cells like in a spreadsheet program and should not blend with the contents of a table cell.
Spaces after a numbering are retained even if followed by a cancellation or uppercase character. The back translation of nouns preceded by an ellipsis has been improved so that abbreviations at the beginning of words are always recognized. The Swedish Braille table SW850 has been added.

4.02 

June 2008

 

Internet addresses in brackets are now also correctly implemented at the end of a sentence. The words "he" and "hen" are given the cancellation point 6 in shorthand to avoid confusion with "had" and "hatten". Non-breaking spaces within commonly used Abbreviations are overlooked. An abbreviation is thus recognized as such despite non-breaking spaces. Umlauts are marked in shorthand with a cancellation period.

4.01 

March 2008.

 

Internet addresses can also contain non-breaking hyphens and minus signs. The equal sign is represented in a mathematical context without dot 4. The new French Character map TBFR2007 is now also available as a code table. A hyphen at the beginning of a line is also used as a leading space Indent and not interpreted as a dash. An "h" between numbers is used as a possible delimiter for Times interpreted.
Currency information with articulated numbers may also begin with ".--".

4.0 

November 2007this version includes for the first time the Shorthand back translation for the languages German, English and French. In favor of the back translation, a cancellation point 6 is now set for some commonly used abbreviations so that they cannot be confused with two-form abbreviations. If these cancellation characters (before "Fr", "Mr", "Nr" and "Dr") are not desired, the abbreviations can be included in the list of exceptions for Braille translation. In addition, the following improvements have been made:
Ellipsis by word are also recognized if there is a punctuation mark after it. Space between a Percent or per mille sign and arithmetic characters are optionally removed. Single people Exclamation mark are marked in shorthand with a cancellation period.
Bullet points for numbers are inserted even if the number ends with a sentence period.

3.02 

March 2007

 

Uniform single-standing contractions put an end to the "All Big" display if they are lowercase. As the beginning of such insertions, individual capital letters are now also recognized, followed by an apostrophe or hyphen, if the associated part of the word consists of capital letters. If punctuation marks in a text are not immediately connected to the preceding word, but are separated with a space, the space is removed. In the case of compound words with a hyphen, "Everything in capital letters" was announced in English and French if both parts of the word were capitalized. Now the capitalization character is repeated, which corresponds to the current rules. One Outline point for numbers that are separated by spaces is inserted only if it is a real group of numbers and not a real number or mathematical expression.
Hyphens in Internet addresses are not considered hyphens. These are therefore not treated as in the case of hyphenation. If within Abbreviations (except for the first letter), it is not an abbreviation, but mixed case. Representation of the gender-neutral form by "In" with a capital "I" at the end of words is now also possible in the singular. "So." is now used as Abbreviation for "Sunday" interpreted and not shortened.

3.01 

April 2006

 

Columns of numbers are only considered structured numbers if there is a single space between the numbers. Simple Slots in computer braille also end with special characters that cannot be included in URLs (for example, enclosing brackets or quotation marks).

3.0 

December 2005.
in addition to the German, British and American systems, the Braille module now also supports French Braille according to the rules of the "Commission Evolution du Braille Français" (CEBF) of 1998 and 2001 (Code Braille Informatique), including partial shorthand and Antoine numbers.