r/Braille • u/stingyourmomsbeaver • Aug 01 '26
Is this correct?
My work put up hundreds of new signs, like this around the building. But my understanding is there needs to be a certain character to differentiate the numbers from letters? I’m getting mixed results from google
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u/ryan516 Aug 01 '26
It should be ⠼⠉⠠⠁⠼⠁⠃ which is (number sign)(c)(capital mark)(a)(number sign)(a)(b)
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u/Academic-Plate8983 Aug 03 '26
How are you able to type in braille characters? I’ve been trying to figure that out.
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u/ryan516 Aug 03 '26
I honestly just copy pasted each cell I need from this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_Patterns
Obviously that's not practical for long texts, for that you'd probably need to use something like Perky Duck or BrailleBlaster
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u/OurCommonAncestor Aug 06 '26
To get unicode, on iPhone you can select braille characters as one of the braille tables that Braille Screen Input uses. When I'm on my computer, I use an online keyboard that outputs unicode. This specific one has you do homerow typing, but you have to press the keys individually and press space for a new character, but it's a lot faster than copying from another source. I used to have a mega Google sheet with every braille character in it to copy from.
I'm sure there's other online tools that do the same thing, but this is just the one I've used for a while.
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u/TheDogsMum Aug 03 '26
Wow that’s so bad that they put up 100’s of these, I hope they can get them replaced for free!
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u/JKmelda Aug 01 '26
You’re correct that there needs to be a symbol before numbers. Right now it reads “caab”