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In all braille systems, the braille pattern dots-0 is used to represent a space or the lack of content. [1] In particular some fonts display the character as a fixed-width blank. However, the Unicode standard explicitly states that it does not act as a space, [ 2 ] a statement added in response to a comment that it should be treated as a space.
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".
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{ Unicode chart Braille Patterns }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Braille Patterns block.
Braille symbol ⠓ ⣇ ⣿ Unicode character U+2813: U+28C7: U+28FF: Name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-125: BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12378: BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12345678
A dot pattern in rising numeric order is the only valid input when substituting this template. Another identification is the Unicode character, ⠏, that is U+280F ⠏ BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234 (block: Braille Patterns). The block has a mapping from raised dots to character id in the range U+28xx.
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 ...
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 pattern dots-5 ( ⠐) is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle right dot raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle right dot raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2810, and in Braille ASCII with a quote mark: ".