The Unicode range 2800-28ff is the "official" way to represent any 8-dot
braille pattern, but I don't know whether anyone actually uses and supports
it. Also I would expect problems (in 6-dot braille) with different
embossers and page sizes. Or are you contemplating only reading this
braille on refreshable displays?
At 09:26 AM 10/13/2005, you wrote:
Hi.
As we all know, braille is differently standardized in nearly every
country (I so wish I could hurt the people responsible for that).
Now, how would you go about distributing braille in an electronic
format over the internet? In particular, I am thinking
about braille music notation, which is in essence standardized
the same way in the US and in the EU, but there still remains
the "charset" problem. Is there actually a standard way
of specifying an ASCII files braill encoding, or
will I have to rely on guesswork? How about encoding variants? How
can I guarantee that the table used by the user of the document is
the same as the standard for that country defines? Questions
over questions. Its a horrible mess, I hope someone has a nice
and technically feasable solution for this.
--
CYa,
Mario
... Creating implements of mass instruction.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <http://www.loc.gov/nls/z3986>
HOME: <http://lras.home.sprynet.com>
The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent
those of NLS.
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