Braille Patterns
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Braille Patterns block:

Braille Patterns

Section Title: History
Table Section Text: The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Braille Patterns block:

Version	Final code points	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document

3.0	U+2800..28FF	256	X3L2/90-064	Extracts from "A Proposal for Funding the Programs of Braille Research and Literacy", 1990-01-01

X3L2/91-085	TC 173 Proposals for new work items for Braille Coding, 1991-03-20

X3L2/92-039	Bishop, Avery (1991-10-29), The long awaited draft reply on Braille symbol encoding

N1093	Shibano, Kohji (1994-12-26), Braille Letters

N1203	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.3.3", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva

X3L2/95-114	N1279	Braille letters (addition request), 1995-10-27

N1303 (html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), "8.14 Braille", Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo

X3L2/95-125	Duran, Peter (1990-05-24), A Proposal for Funding the Programs of Braille Research and Literacy

UTC/1996-002	Aliprand, Joan; Hart, Edwin; Greenfield, Steve (1996-03-05), "Braille", UTC #67 Minutes

UTC/1996-007	Hart, Edwin (1996-03-07), Contribution on Encoding Braille in ISO/IEC 10646

N1342	Sato, Takayuki K. (1996-03-19), Braille letters (confirmation of request)

N1339	Ksar, Mike (1996-03-28), Liaison Letter on Braille to ISO/TC137 Secretariat

N1345	Hart, Edwin (1996-04-01), Initial comments on encoding Braille into ISO/IEC 10646

N1353	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.9", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30

UTC/1996-027.2	Greenfield, Steve (1996-07-01), "K. Braille Proposal", UTC #69 Minutes (PART 2)

N1409R	Braille Symbols, 1996-08-12

N1453	Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "8.9", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31

L2/97-047	N1541	Everson, Michael (1997-03-11), Proposed pDAM text for Braille

N1588	DIS 11 548-1 - Communication aids for blind persons Part 1: Braille identifiers and shift marks - General guidelines, 1997-06-23

N1588.1	DIS 11 548-2 - Communication aids for blind persons Part 2: Latin alphabet based character sets

L2/97-157	N1612	Report of ad-hoc group on Braille encoding, 1997-07-01

L2/97-288	N1603	Umamaheswaran, V. S.

L2/98-136	N1770	Paterson, Bruce (1998-04-06), Revised Text of 10646-1/FPDAM 16: Amendment 16: Braille Patterns

L2/98-286	N1703	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "6.2.2 FPDAM-16 - Braille patterns", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20

Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Sentence(s)

Braille Patterns has 256 patterns.

final_sentence: Braille Patterns has 256 patterns.