{"id":252,"date":"2012-12-17T22:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T06:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blg2\/?p=252"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:51:47","slug":"post-246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Braille in National Aquatic Centre lifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering about the Braille signs in the lifts at Dublin&#8217;s National Aquatic Centre, and it turns out they are in German (courtesy of the Wikipedia entries on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_Braille\">German braille<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Braille_Patterns_%28Unicode%29\">Braille patterns in Unicode<\/a>):<\/p>\n<h3>Open doors<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;margin-right: 50%\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/small-open-doors.jpg\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0.75em\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:200%\">\u281e\u2833\u2817\u2800\u2821\u280b<\/span><br \/>\nT&uuml;r auf\n<\/p>\n<h3>Close doors<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;margin-right: 50%\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/small-close-doors.jpg\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0.75em\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:200%\">\u281e\u2833\u2817\u2800\u2835\u2825<\/span><br \/>\nT&uuml;r zu\n<\/p>\n<h3>Alarm<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;margin-right: 50%\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/small-alarm-bell.jpg\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0.75em\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:200%\">\u281d\u2815\u281e\u2817\u2825\u280b<\/span><br \/>\nNotruf\n<\/p>\n<p>Curious.  See also <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/315\">this xkcd<\/a> (thanks to Oliver Nash for the pointer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering about the Braille signs in the lifts at Dublin&#8217;s National Aquatic Centre, and it turns out they are in German (courtesy of the Wikipedia entries on German braille and Braille patterns in Unicode): Open doors \u281e\u2833\u2817\u2800\u2821\u280b T&uuml;r auf Close doors \u281e\u2833\u2817\u2800\u2835\u2825 T&uuml;r zu Alarm \u281d\u2815\u281e\u2817\u2825\u280b Notruf Curious. See also this xkcd (thanks to Oliver Nash for the pointer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}