Braille Patterns
The same braille letter can be used to transcribe multiple scripts, e.g. Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and even elements of Chinese characters, as well as digits.Whether computed directly in hexadecimal, or indirectly via binary, the result is added to 280016, the offset for the Braille Patterns Unicode block.The Unicode names of braille dot patterns are not the same as what many English speakers would use colloquially.This does not always render very clearly: if the circle outlines are printed heavily then it can be difficult to tell at a glance whether the dot is filled in or not.The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Braille Patterns block:
English BrailleBrailleBraille charactersUnicode blockBRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1235hangulり riUnicode character propertyISO 15924script codelittle-endianbraille ASCIIUnicodeGNU UnifontDejaVu fontsterminal applicationsEverson, MichaelGitHub1829 brailleInternational uniformityASCII brailleAlbanianAzerbaijaniCantoneseCatalanChinese (mainland Mandarin)EnglishUnified EnglishEsperantoFrenchGermanGhanaianGuaraniHawaiianHungarianIñupiaqItalianLatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMalteseMāoriNavajoNigerianPhilippinePolishPortugueseRomanianSamoanSlovakSouth AfricanSpanishTaiwanese MandarinTurkishVietnameseYugoslavZambianEstonianFaroeseIcelandicScandinavianNorthern SámiCyrillicBelarusianBulgarianKazakhKyrgyzMongolianRussianUkrainianArabicPersianBharati BrailleDevanagari (Hindi / Marathi / Nepali)Bengali (Bangla / Assamese)GujaratiKannadaMalayalamPunjabiSinhalaTeluguAmharicArmenianBurmeseDzongkhaGeorgianHebrewInuktitutThai and LaoTibetanAlgerian BrailleAmerican BrailleMainland Chinese MandarinTwo-cell Chinese (Shuangpin)JapaneseKoreanGardner–Salinas braille codesBraille musicCanadian currency marksComputer Braille CodeInternational Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)Nemeth braille codeBraille technologyBraille e-bookBraille embosserBraille translatorBraille watchMountbatten BraillerOptical braille recognitionPerforationPerkins BraillerRefreshable braille displaySlate and stylusBraigoLouis BrailleCharles BarbierRóża CzackaValentin HaüyHarris MowbrayThakur Vishva Narain SinghSabriye TenberkenWilliam Bell WaitBraille Institute of AmericaBraille Without BordersJapan Braille LibraryNational Braille Association