Moon alphabet
| Moon | ||
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| - | - | |
| Font | alphabet | |
| languages | English | |
| inventor | William Moon | |
| Emergence | 1845 | |
| Usage time | 19th century until today | |
| Used in | England | |
| Officially in | - | |
| ancestry | Latin Moon |
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| Derived | - | |
| relative | Braille | |
| particularities | - | |
| Unicode block | - | |
| ISO 15924 | Moon | |
The moon type (also Moon font or Moon code) is a 1845 by William Moon developed writing system for the blind . The Braille consists of characters in the form of geometric symbols. It is particularly easy to learn for people who only go blind in the course of their lives, as many symbols are similar to the letters of the alphabet. Moon script is read by touching it with the fingers; script is not very suitable for writing.
construction
The Moon script consists of phonetic characters in the form of geometric symbols. The entire alphabet consists of nine characters, the meaning of which is determined by their direction. Punctuation marks are represented by further symbols, for example by dots.
Letters
Digits
The digits 1 to 9 and 0 correspond to the letters A to J with a leading start character.
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History and use
Since William Moon had a lot of money at his disposal, the moon alphabet spread rapidly. Other forms of relief writing were also common in England , and it took some persuasion before Braille was accepted. The blind were allowed to decide for themselves, provided that they had mastered at least three systems, the braille was presented to them for testing. In some countries the moon alphabet is still used today, especially for later blind and disabled children, specially printed books are used.
Books in the moon alphabet had a special feature: in the boustrophedon, the lines can be read alternately from left to right and right to left, so that you don't have to take your fingers off the side. With this form of relief writing blind people could learn to read in a short time, but fluent reading could not be achieved. In the UK, two-way writing was abolished in 1990; the Moon script is now always read from left to right.
In Moon's modern character set, letters and characters consist of lines represented by dots. A grid of 5 × 5 points ( Dotty Moon ) is used. Special printers can print these characters in a tactile manner in foil or paper, so that even computer texts can be read after printing.
Web links
- Moon literature today in Great Britain www.moonliteracy.org.uk (English)
- at www.fakoo.de inform about the moon alphabet and learn the moon alphabet online
- Michael Everson , June 29, 2011, Preliminary proposal for encoding the Moon script in the SMP of the UCS (PDF file; 559 kB)