Re: [OT] 19th century "Unicode"

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At 09:10 -0800 2001-03-08, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>In Mark Davis' Unicode transcriptions page
>(http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/Unicode_transcriptions.html) it is
>mentioned a previous meaning of the word Unicode:
>
>"A telegraphic code in which one word or set of letters represents a
>sentence or phrase; a telegram or message in this. (late 19th century, OED)"

Isn't an example of this that of the Colonel Charles Napier, who,
after the victory at Miani in 1843, is said to have sent a dispatch
consisting of one word, "Peccavi" (Latin: 'I have sinned', i.e., 'I
have Sindh.')?

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