Braille

Braille

A writing system using a series of raised dots to be read with the fingers by people who are blind or whose eyesight is not sufficient for reading printed material.

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Category: Unicode standard
Company: Unicode Consortium
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braille

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A writing system using a series of raised dots to be read with the fingers by people who are blind or whose eyesight is not sufficient for reading printed material.

braille

Language; Language learning

An alphabet, developed by Louis Braille (1809-1852) in 1837, in which the letters are represented by patterns of raised dots.

braille pattern

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

One of the 64 (for six-dot Braille) or 256 (for eight-dot Braille) possible tangible dot combinations.

Web-Braille

Internet; Internet communication

Web-Braille is a delivery system that allows content to be read on a Braille display or transmitted to a Braille embosser. The name is proprietary to the National Library Services ...

braille coder

Professional careers; Occupational titles

A professional who transcribes reading matter into braille for use by the blind, using hand stylus. Responsibilities include: * Reads copy and manipulates hand stylus to emboss ...

Unicode encoding form

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A Unicode encoding form assigns each Unicode scalar value to a unique code unit sequence. The Unicode Standard defines three Unicode encoding forms: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. * ...

Unicode encoding scheme

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A specified byte serialization for a Unicode encoding form, including the specification of the handling of a byte order mark (BOM), if allowed. * For historical reasons, the ...

Unicode locale data markup language (LDML)

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

The XML specification for the exchange of locale data, defined by Unicode Technical Standard #35, "Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)." (See also Unicode Common Locale ...

Unicode scalar value

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

ny Unicode code point except high-surrogate and low-surrogate code points. In other words, the ranges of integers 0 to D7FF16 and E00016 to 10FFFF16 inclusive. * As a result of ...

Unicode signature

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

An implicit marker to identify a file as containing Unicode text in a particular encoding form. An initial byte order mark (BOM) may be used as a Unicode signature.