A few questiosn about encoding
Andrew Berg
robotsondrugs at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 10:04:50 EDT 2013
On 2013.06.20 08:40, Rick Johnson wrote:
> One the most humorous aspects of Unicode is that it has
> encodings for Braille characters. Hmm, this presents a
> conundrum of sorts. RIDDLE ME THIS?!
>
> Since Braille is a type of "reading" for the blind by
> utilizing the sense of touch (therefore DEMANDING 3
> dimensions) and glyphs derived from Unicode are
> restrictively two dimensional, because let's face it people,
> Unicode exists in your computer, and computer screens are
> two dimensional... but you already knew that -- i think?,
> then what is the purpose of a Unicode Braille character set?
Two dimensional characters can be made into 3 dimensional shapes.
Building numbers are a good example of this.
We already have one Unicode troll; do we really need you too?
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