What ⢜ means
A Braille cell is a small grid of positions for raised dots, read by touch. In an eight-dot cell, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3, 7 from top to bottom; the right is 4, 5, 6, 8. So ⢜ has a dot in the third position on the left and the first, second and fourth positions on the right.
Traditional six-dot Braille uses two columns of three positions. This character includes the extra bottom-right dot, dot 8, so it belongs to the eight-dot system used, among other things, for computer Braille. Unicode preserves the dot arrangement; individual Braille codes assign its reading. Identifying the language and code is the next step when decoding it in a passage.
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Worth knowing
- Inspired by Charles Barbier’s raised-dot writing, Louis Braille developed his six-dot system in 1824 and published it in 1829. The eight-dot cell is a later extension.
Questions people ask
1Can I read this by touch on a normal screen?
No. A normal screen displays a visual dot pattern. Tactile Braille needs raised dots, such as those on embossed paper or a refreshable Braille display, a device with moving pins.
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⢜\289CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.