At 11:10 AM 8/9/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>. (But I think
>that the main reason why these patterns are in Unicode is to encode runs of
>braille-looking characters in didactic texts for *sighted* people).
No, they are provided for any case that you want to transmit 'final-form'
output for Braille, i.e. *after* the appropriate mapping has been done from
Unicode characters to the Braille system the user is using.
Being able to unambiguously 'freeze' the result of a Braille conversion and
to communicate that result to another device was explicitly requested by
the proponents of the Braille encoding in Unicode.
A./
