OT: Braille Hexadecimal

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Sun Apr 23 10:00:25 UTC 2017


Well, that's not hard for braille to do. Just have the number signs
where they need to be, and just have the letter sign before a-f, then go
back to numbers.
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Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> writes:

> Okay, so this has nothing to do with Linux or SBCs and almost nothing
> to do with accessibility, but all I'm getting from Google is how
> unicode handles visual braille and I figure these lists probably have
> the highest concentration of those in the intersection of "geeky
> enough to know hexadecimal" and "uses Braille on a regular basis".
>
> So, in print or spoken, Hexadecimal uses the Letters A-F to represent
> decimal values 10-15, but in braille, the letters A-F are already
> doing double duty as the digits 1-6. I don't use braille, so I've
> never run into this conflict of notation, but I find myself curious
> how my braille reading peers resolve it.




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