If I may, my answer will be twofold. First of all, the aspect we are discussing this morning is huge. I am not surprised by what you are telling me. Indeed, those who had very significant aspects to present were dismissed. As I said earlier, I worked on these committees, and in 2003, when we were supposed to deal with this issue, I was dismissed, because people knew that I was able to defend my point of view.
Secondly, I would like to give you an example. Earlier I explained how we write the number 12. We take a numeric symbol and we add the letters a and b. This is done throughout the United States, Australia, in the rest of Canada and in the United Kingdom. This is still being done in Quebec, but just until September. It seems to me that if we really want to standardize braille, we should have gone this route, which has been accepted everywhere with the exception of France. Instead of standardizing with France, we should have standardized with the rest of the world.
I don't know how you feel about this, but this makes sense to me. I would have to give you a course on braille in order to explain why we chose to write figures and scientific coding differently, but that is another issue. The people who came to talk to you about this topic had the advantage of presenting this as being something that was very simple and easy, something that didn't pose any problems. However, the problems are going to crop up at the academic level, in teaching this method, and not amongst those who read reviews.