Talk:Braille ASCII

Hello all.
Hello all. I have just started this article, and it could certainly use some work. I have tried to include everything I knew on the topic, but I undoubtedly missed some things, and/or got some things wrong. Anyway, feel free to edit and improve as you see fit; not that you need my invitation anyway. cannona 03:27, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

ASCII Table
I've lifted the table from ASCII and transcribed the codes on the table that was here. I was very careful, but it could use some review, as it's just so much data to my eyes. The old table is in history of course, but an authorative source should be found/cited. &mdash;Daelin 2006-01-05 00:36:27

Thanks for this! I'll go over it later today. cannona 17:57, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Braille Unicode
For the record a Unicode column was added by 83.76.237.237. There are in fact unicode characters in every cell, and appear to be from the correct code range. If you see question marks or some other placeholder, your browser was unable to find the correct glyphs. I can't see them myself, but a copy&amp;paste into another program revealed them. —Daelin @ 2006–01–23 08:26Z

Web Braille
Perhaps this is important enough to have a separate page instead of only a non-technical link? DGG 22:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

capitalization symbol
is the capitalization symbol part of Braille ASCII? Actually, I don't see any differences between ASCII and Braille ASCII other than just the difference between the graphical representation (letters vs. dots). --Abdull 12:48, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The table that was here was misleading, making it appear as though Braille ASCII mapped 1:1 with standard ASCII. I trimmed the redundant information (binary and decimal values) out and added the meaning of the Braille characters. I have no firsthand experience with Braille ASCII or Braille however, so I am uncertain of the accuracy -- all of my information came from the Braille article and an old website. ~ Eidako (talk) 23:27, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Rediculous squares
My mistake, they don't appear as squares but as rectangles. See a screenshot from my computer. — Quin 03:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Missing characters
What about `, {, |, and }? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.89.232.122 (talk) 02:12, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

They're not needed. You only need 64 characters to represent all possible combinations of 6 Braille dots. Silas S. Brown (talk) 13:33, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Meanings Column
I believe that the meanings column in the tables is a bit misleading. For example, it says that dots 2346 mean "the". This is only true in the english literary braille codes. In Nemith, computer, music, Esperanto, and many other braille codes, it means something entirely different. I think either these should be removed from the table, or the article should be clarified to show that these are from one of the contracted English literary codes. cannona (talk) 12:44, 13 May 2013 (UTC)


 * I know I'm late, but I agree. There are many different braille codes, and specifying that's it's the Unified English Braille Grade 2 (contracted) braille code, or UEB Grade 2, would clear things up. I do understand that UEB is the standard braille code, but for the sake of clarity, it would make sense to specify the braille code used.
 * (as a side note, I am visually impaired, and I know how to read and write in braille) Ego-lay atman-bay (talk) 16:46, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Braille ASCII C-String literal
I personally think that the c-string literal should be changed to just a letter mapping, and not have to deal with characters that need to be escaped. This would fix confusion, and not have to deal with escaping characters in programming languages that don't need to have escaped strings (e.g. scratch). If someone really wanted it in a programming language that needs escaping, then they can work it out themselves.

Oh, and to denote that it can be used anywhere, it would be a good idea to also remove the quotes around the strings. Ego-lay atman-bay (talk) 16:35, 29 May 2023 (UTC)