From: Martin Kochanski (unicode@cardbox.net)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 18:12:10 EST
The Economist has recently been running large posters on the London Underground written entirely in Morse code.
I'm not sure what this says about their perceived target market.
At 14:19 18/11/02 -0500, Jim Allan wrote:
>Carl W. Brown posted:
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>> I seem to remember that just recently Morse code was dropped and is no
>> longer used officially. Braille is different.
>>
>> Unicode does support dead scripts for scholarly use. Do you think that
>> there will be many scholarly texts that will be written in Morse code?
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>Morse code is certainly being used less and is mostly phased out for
>maritime use. See for example http://www.wjkane.com/picayune.htm and
>http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/av/1999/08/msg00000.html.
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>But it is not yet dead. See
>http://www.inq7.net/reg/2002/aug/02/reg_10-1.htm.
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>An ability to interpret Morse code at the rate of at least five words
>per minute is still a requirement for a Ham radio license.
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>A number of Morse Code fonts are available from links found at
>http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/morse.html along with many more "normal" fonts.
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>Of course the chracters in such Morse Code fonts are simple cyphers for
>the Latin alphabet and there is no particular need for Unicode to code
>the characters directly as a separate script.
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>Jim Allan
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