Bharati Braille

A unified Braille standard for writing text in Indian languages using the six-dot Braille format. Bharati Braille assigns the same Braille cell to phonetically equivalent characters across different Indian languages (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, etc.), meaning that a reader familiar with the Braille encoding can read any Indian language they understand. However, this also means that the same Braille cell may represent different visual characters in different scripts, and a single character in an Indian language may require more than one Braille cell. Bharati Braille is essential for enabling literacy among visually impaired people in the Indian subcontinent.