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On 2013.06.20 08:40, Rick Johnson wrote:
> One the most humorous aspects of Unicode is that it has
> encodings for Braille characters. Hmm, this presents a
> conundrum of sorts. RIDDLE ME THIS?!
> 
>     Since Braille is a type of "reading" for the blind by
>     utilizing the sense of touch (therefore DEMANDING 3
>     dimensions) and glyphs derived from Unicode are
>     restrictively two dimensional, because let's face it people,
>     Unicode exists in your computer, and computer screens are
>     two dimensional... but you already knew that -- i think?,
>     then what is the purpose of a Unicode Braille character set?
Two dimensional characters can be made into 3 dimensional shapes.
Building numbers are a good example of this.
We already have one Unicode troll; do we really need you too?

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