Happy Birthday Louis Braille!

[pne]

Today's Google art is particularly nifty, in my opinion!

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[pne.livejournal.com]

But it's not nifty that they display it on all language and international versions. I don't know about most countries, but I know that Hong Kong uses an entirely different "Braille" (to transcribe Cantonese phonetically), so that would make absolutely no sense.

Hmm... I thought that the 25 letters of the Roman alphabet (A-Z, minus W) were the same in all Braille variants when used to spell the Roman alphabet, though I imagine people who usually use different scripts may not learn/be taught the Braille symbols for the Roman alphabet in addition to those for the script usually used for their language.

But it's true that attempting to read them as, say, Japanese or Chinese Braille will almost certainly produce illegible results... but then, the letters "G-o-o-g-l-e" are probably present in the logo in all language and international versions, too, aren't they, rather than being localised?

In which case, the Braille is probably fine; the only non-international bit is using dot-6 for capitalisation.

*looks* Heh, in Japanese, that would spell ゜れたたれにら. And in Mandarin, "guo wo g lie". (The initial dot-6 doesn't appear to stand for anything in isolation.)

Can you say "4 noh oaahng leh"??

Not sure what that is... or is that how the Braille for g-o-o-g-l-e would be read when interpreted as Cantonese rather than Roman Braille?