[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. These are at most the building blocks for braille. A better parallel
would be to consider these "presentation glyphs" for braille. (But I think
that the main reason why these patterns are in Unicode is to encode runs of
braille-looking characters in didactic texts
Steven R. Loomis wrote:
[...] Presumably the unicode codepoints in braille
would make a great format for these translations on their way to a
printer. One would hope they would get such use and not simply for
braille-looking characters on paper or screen.
You are right, I didn't catch it:
Marco said:
These are at most the building blocks for braille. A better parallel
would be to consider these "presentation glyphs" for braille. (But I think
that the main reason why these patterns are in Unicode is to encode runs of
braille-looking characters in didactic texts for *sighted*
Is not
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/braille_patterns.html
or alternately
http://charts.unicode.org/Web/U2800.html
already covering this?
Note that the standard specifically does not try to give linguistic meaning
to braille, it is attempting to encode the current scheme of Braille.
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
Is not
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/braille_patterns.html
or alternately
http://charts.unicode.org/Web/U2800.html
already covering this?
No. These are at most the building blocks for braille. A better parallel
would be to consider these "presentation
Marco Cimarosti wrote about Unicode-Braille conversions.
This may be a very specialized use for Unicode, but it is
fascinating.
American Foundation for the Blind has a fact sheet about
Braille Technology for anyone else whose curiosity was
piqued:
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