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The Unicode names of braille dot patterns are not the same as what many English speakers would use colloquially. In particular, Unicode names use the word dots in the plural even when only one dot is listed: thus Unicode says braille pattern dots-5 when most English-speaking users of braille would simply say "braille dot 5" or just "dot 5".
Braille ASCII (or more formally The North American Braille ASCII Code, also known as SimBraille) is a subset of the ASCII character set which uses 64 of the printable ASCII characters to represent all possible dot combinations in six-dot braille. It was developed around 1969 and, despite originally being known as North American Braille ASCII ...
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the ...
The Braille pattern dots-6 ( ⠠) is a 6-dot braille cell with the bottom right dot raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the lower-middle right dot raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2820, and in Braille ASCII with a comma:, .
The Braille set was added to the Unicode Standard in version 3.0 (1999). Most braille embossers and refreshable braille displays do not use the Unicode code points, but instead reuse the 8-bit code points that are assigned to standard ASCII for braille ASCII.
The Braille pattern dots-3456 ( ⠼) is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right, middle right, and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right, upper-middle right, and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283c, and in Braille ASCII with a number sign: #.
The Braille pattern dots-0 ( ⠀), also called a blank Braille pattern, is a 6-dot or 8-dot braille cell with no dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2800, and in Braille ASCII with a space.
Unicode range. U+2800 to U+283F English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille, [1] is the braille alphabet used for ... The braille number sign has no equivalent in ...