Computer Braille Code: Difference between revisions

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'''Computer Braille''' is an adaptation of [[braille]] to an eight-dot cell; the resulting 256 characters matchare inassigned numberto the 256 characters of [[ASCII]] computer coding. Unfortunately, an eight-dot cell is too large to be read easily, negating one of the principal advantages of braille, and it was abandoned in [[Unified English Braille]], which has been adopted in most English-speaking countries apart from the United States.

One quarter of Computer Braille characters are the 64 of standard braille. Capital letters are derived by adding dot 7:

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{| class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.2"

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!Lower case:

!Source letter:

|{{bc|1|type=8dot}} a

|{{bc|⠃|type=8dot}} b

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|{{bc|⠽|type=8dot}} y

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!Upper case:

!Derived letter:

|{{bc|17|type=8dot}} A

|{{bc|127|type=8dot}} B