NOTES.md

Implementation notes

You can use the document World Braille Usage to consult what language you must use for your country.

English - North American Braille ASCII code

Implementation of North American Braille ASCII code.

Spanish - Braille español (Grado 1)

Implementation of CBE guide.

Numbers treatment

• According to the guide, numbers with 10 or more digits and telephone numbers must be preceded by a numeric prefix ⠼ in the first number only. But this implementation currently precede the numerical prefix before any number.

French - Code Braille Français Uniformisé (CBFU)

Implementation of Code Braille Français Uniformisé (CBFU).

German - Das System der deutschen Brailleschrift

Implementation of Das System der deutschen Brailleschrift (created by BSKDL).

Capital letters treatment

The handling of capital letters has been simplified in this implementation. The guide indicates that:

1. Individual capital letters and sequences of capital letters are identified by placing the character‌ ⠘ in front of them (capital letter ad symbol).
2. Lowercase letters are marked by prefixing them with the character ⠠ (lowercase advertisement character).

However, these rules don't apply. For each capital letter, only the character ⠨ is prepended regardless of its context.

Galician - Braille español (Grado 1)

Uses same implementation as Spanish.

Basque - Braille español (Grado 1)

Uses same implementation as Spanish.

Catalan/Valencian

• Uses same implementation as Spanish except for accent marks which differs.
• The character "L geminate" has not been found in unicode database.