I immediately set out to implement braille bar graphs for myself. The characters this script outputs are in the Unicode Braille Patterns section ... that its dependent axis is the vertical axis. Thus ...

Boney said this occurred because computer recognizes numbers. Each character for any language, including Cherokee, has to be associated with a number or numbers, and Unicode is that numbering system. ...

Though each language may be used by a small number of people worldwide, Davis says it’s important for Unicode to add support, both for the purpose of preservation and spreading access to computers.