Re: Morse code

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 08:16:45 EST

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    Surely this is one for the FAQ.

    At 11:44 +0100 2002-11-18, Otto Stolz wrote:
    >Radovan Garabik wrote:
    >
    >>Recently I got a crazy idea: why not include Morse code characters
    >>in unicode? (Yes, I know it is crazy, but when Braille is already
    >>included...)
    >
    >I was under the impression that all three Morse code elements are already
    >in Unicode:
    > U+00B7
    > U+2013
    > U+0020
    >
    >In contrast to the dots comprising a Braille pattern, these code elements
    >are concatenated sequentially, just as characters in plain text are. Hence,
    >there is obviously no reason to assign codepoints to particular sequences
    >thereof.
    >
    >Best wishes,
    > Otto Stolz

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