Re: REPLY: Foriegn lang. credit for braille / FW: Braille...

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 16:04:48 EDT

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James E. Agenbroad scripsit:

> 1. Being basically a 6-bit system, Braille has 64 codes to which meanings
> can be assigned. It would work less well with any language whose writing
> system (letters, digits, punctuation, symbols (e.g. @#$%&*+=)) had more
> than 64 elements.

Unicode 3.0 has slots for 256 Braille symbols, making it an 8-bit system.

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