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This reminds me a little of baudot, which was 5bit but the shift character was stateful. So you had two character sets (nominally "letters" and "figures"). So
by soneil 7y ago
This reminds me a little of baudot, which was 5bit but the shift character was stateful. So you had two character sets (nominally "letters" and "figures"). So sending "AA11" would be five symbols (A, A, FIGS, 1, 1), but sending "A1A1" would be seven (A, FIGS, 1, LTRS, A, FIGS, 1).
It entertains me how many of these issues were addressed long before we had computers.
(Aside; could I argue morse was a variable-length encoding?)
- dbcurtis 7y ago_.___ . ...
- Stratoscope 7y agoWhat Morse Code character is "dah dit dah dah dah"? It's not one I recognize. Ah, this must be what you meant, yes? —•—— • •••
- dbcurtis 7y ago-.-. I think some fonts are not great at rendering Morse code :) There may be a dah dit dah dah dah, but I don't know it either. But then again I don't know the less common punctuation, Cyrillic Morse, and I think heard once there is even Kanji Morse. ...-.-