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U+2800 etc. is for Braille, which is an alphabet. Nothing to do with bitmaps.
by titanix2 8y ago
U+2800 etc. is for Braille, which is an alphabet. Nothing to do with bitmaps.
- ygra 8y agoI think it was a joke referring to some people using Braille to display black and white images as text, e.g. https://loveeevee.github.io/Dots-Converter/retro.html https://loveeevee.github.io/Dots-Converter/retro.html
- Dylan16807 8y agoYeah. Key to that use is that they didn't pick any specific patterns, they went with every possible combination of 8 dots being present/absent.
- Someone 8y agoNitpick: the U+2800 block specifically isn’t an alphabet. For example, U+2801 is called “Braille Pattern dots-1”. That’s like calling U+0069 “vertical bar with a dot on top”, rather than “Latin small letter I” (Reason for that is that the dot patterns are heavily overloaded and even language specific. German digits are different from US ones, for example)