| The UEB: What And Why?
C. de Klerk, South Africa.
cjdk@mweb.co.za
The idea behind Unified English Braille (UEB) was to come up with a braille system that was unified, unambiguous, had representations for print characters for which no symbols existed in pre-unified braille, and should have as little impact as possible on the existing literary braille code. The author gives the example of South Africa, which has gone a step further and unified the Braille codes all ten local official languages, and hence now talks of Unified Braille Code, UBC. By applying these same principles, this can also be done in other countries where languages other than English are spoken. This paper goes on to outline and assess the status of UEB/UBC in South Africa, including efforts since the early 1990’s to use UEB, and later on training courses the gap from the pre-unified to the unified code, and the resolve to publish only in UBC from 2015.
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