[nfbcs] Computer Braille Question

Lloyd Rasmussen lras at loc.gov
Thu Aug 13 12:58:36 UTC 2009


The underscore character is two 4-5-6's in a row.  So an underscore 
followed by a single uppercase letter is three 4-5-6 cells followed by the 
letter.

At 09:16 PM 8/12/2009, you wrote:
>Hello, all!
>
>In the Computer Braille Code, how does one indicate that a single letter 
>is uppercase? I've seen this done by preceeding the character with dots 
>4-5-6 but then how does one distinguish this from the underscore character?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Mike Freeman

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