Name: TED-Ed】（盲文是如何被髮明的｜視覺時刻9-Jessica Oreck）。 (【TED-Ed】(How Braille was invented | Moments of Vision 9 - Jessica Oreck))
Uploaded: 2022-03-04T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 1 min 50 s

It's the middle of the Napoleonic Wars in the middle of Europe, and it's the middle of the night.

歐洲大陸中部正值拿破崙戰爭，而那時是午夜 。

One Captain Charles Barbier of Napoleon's army is trying to relay a message to one of his troops.

拿破崙軍隊的查爾斯‧巴比爾上尉正試圖傳訊給其中一支部隊。

But sending written communications to the front lines can be deadly for the recipient.

但傳送書信給前線士兵可能會惹來殺身之禍。

Lighting a candle to read the missive can give away their positions to the enemy.

點蠟燭閱讀書信，可能會間接洩漏藏匿的地點。

In a moment of vision, Barbier pokes a series of holes into a sheet of a paper with his blade,

巴比爾靈機一動，用刀片在紙張背後戳出許多小洞。

creating a coded message that can be deciphered by fingertip, even in the pitch black.

這些小洞組成的編碼可透過指尖觸摸解碼，所即使一片黑暗也能讀取。

The merits of his so-called night writing are never acknowledged by the military,

軍隊的人並不理解巴比爾所謂「點字」的好處。

but in 1821, Barbier approaches the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris in the hopes that they might find a use for his innovative, new communication method.

但在 1821 年，巴比爾向巴黎盲人青年皇家學會提出建議，希望他們能運用這套創新的溝通方式。

There, a precocious teen by the name of Louis Braille does just that.

有位成熟的青年，路易‧布萊葉接受了他的提議。

Louis spends the next several years improving on Barbier's idea, creating an organized alphabet fitting into a six dot standardized cell.

路易花了許多年修正巴比爾原版的點字，創設了一套新系統，運用六個整齊的洞，排列組合出 26 個字母。

Today, Braille is the universally accepted system of writing for the blind, adapted for more than 130 languages.

直到今日，點字已是全球通用的盲人書寫系統，適用於 130 種以上的語言。

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