Re: ASCII Consortium

From: James E. Agenbroad (jage@loc.gov)
Date: Tue Sep 14 1999 - 11:42:49 EDT


On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> Robert Brady wrote on 1999-09-14 12:58 UTC:
> > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rwb197/ascii/
>
> What happened ever to the Baudot Consortium?
>
> "Uppercase letters are for losers: 5 bits are more then enough
> for true international communication. Now with multimedia
> encapsulation (BEL)!
>
> NEW: Shift-Baudot!!! Now with digits, for the mathematically inclined."
>
> Markus
>
> --
> Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
> Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
>
>
                                               Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Braille encodes many scripts with 6 bits--64 codes.
     Regards,
          Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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