At 12:11 -0700 9/15/1999, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>John Cowan suggested:
>
> > Perhaps we need two new characters for Unicode 4.0,
> > MORSE SIGNAL DIT and MORSE SIGNAL DAH.
>
>Or, knowing the predilection of some in the character encoding
>business to precomposed wholes, rather than combining, we
>should also include:
>
>MORSE SIGNAL DIT DIT
In the parlance of the trade, that's
MORSE SIGNAL DIDIT
>MORSE SIGNAL DIT DIT DIT
...DIDIDIT
>MORSE SIGNAL DIT DAH
...DIDAH
>MORSE SIGNAL DIT DAH DIT
DIDAH DIT
>MORSE SIGNAL DAH DIT
STET
>MORSE SIGNAL DAH DAH DIT
STET
>MORSE SIGNAL DAH DIT DAH DIT
...DAH DIDAH DIT
>MORSE SIGNAL DAH DEE DAH DEE HOW DEE DOO
BIBBEDY BOBBEDY BOO
>
>plus a bunch of compatibility equivalences.
>
>--Ken
NADHIN DHINNA SHAKALAKABOOMALAKA WOBOSKEEWATNDATN NANA NANA BOOM
(cf. "Yoda", by W. A. Yankovic)
-- Ed Cherlin <edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu> A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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