South African English Braille Translator (pre-Unified)  

FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY

The English/South African tables support print-to-braille translation of English-language literary text in contracted or uncontracted English braille according to South African usage (which differs in some minor respects from British usage). The American Computer Braille Code (CBC) is also supported.

REFERENCES, HISTORY AND CREDITS

These tables were derived from the then current English/British tables in March 1986 at the Institute for the Blind, Worcester, South Africa, with the assistance of Duxbury Systems, Inc. They are presently maintained mainly by Mr. Christo de Klerk with the help of Mr. Jan Bam, and with occasional assistance from Duxbury.

"Code for Computer Braille Notation" (1987), a publication of the Braille Authority of North America (BANA), defines the computer notation code followed.

(Documentation reviewed: May 2006.)

Duxbury DBT: Braille Translation in Many Languages.