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Braille Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille disp ...
pattern dots-0 ( ), also called a blank Braille pattern, is a 6-dot or 8-dot braille cell with no dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2800, and in
Braille ASCII Braille ASCII (or more formally The North American Braille ASCII Code, also known as SimBraille) is a subset of the ASCII character set which uses 64 of the printable ASCII characters to represent all possible dot combinations in six-dot braille ...
with a space.


Unified Braille

In all braille systems, the braille pattern dots-0 is used to represent a space or the lack of content.. In particular some fonts display the character as a fixed-width blank. However, the Unicode standard explicitly states that it does not act as a space,Unicode chart U+2800
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a statement added in response to a comment that it should be treated as a space.


Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-0 are Braille patterns 7, 8, and 78, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.


Notes

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