3 ms·
> From the article: "I find it quaint that Unicode character names are ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS, in case you need to put them in a Baudot telegram or something."
by Animats 2y ago
> From the article: "I find it quaint that Unicode character names are ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS, in case you need to put them in a Baudot telegram or something."
I had to do that. When we had our steampunk telegraph office at steampunk conventions [1], people could text in a message via SMS, it would be printed on a Model 14 or 15 Teletype, put in an envelope, and hand-delivered. People would use emoji in messages, and the device could only print Baudot, or International Telegraphic Alphabet #2, which is upper case only with some symbols.
Emoji translation would cause the machine to hammer out
(RED-HEART)
or whatever emoji description was needed.
Used the emoji list at [2], an older version.
[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314 https://vimeo.com/124065314
[2] http://unicode.org/emoji/charts-beta/full-emoji-list.html http://unicode.org/emoji/charts-beta/full-emoji-list.html