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The 8-dot code is designed that its 6-dot subset is identical to the 6-dot code. The remainder are assigned by the following rules:
 
* addingthe composition of Braille dot 7, subtracts 32 from the ASCII value (as shown in rows 0 and 1 of the table below);
* the composition of Braille dot 8 adds 128 to the ASCII value (not shown in the table below, it is used for extensions for 8-bit codes of ASCII-based encodings, including single-byte encodings like ISO/IEC 8859 and other legacy Windows and OEM codepages, or multibyte encodings like Unicode UTF-8).
* adding dot 8 adds 128 to the ASCII value;
 
The dot-5 ({{braille cell|5}}) character is used as a universal modifier{{clarification needed|date=April 2023}}.