• From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
• To: John Cowan <cowan@c...>
• Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:04:15 +0000

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:14:07 -0500
John Cowan <cowan@c...> wrote:

> jean-marie.gouarne@a... scripsit:
> 
> 
> > As an example, we could remember the primary (pre-Unicode) Braille
> > system, that allows the representation of any plain text with 2^^6
> > characters only.
> 
> Bah!  Way excessive.  The ITA2 (sometimes called, unhistorically, the
> Baudot) encoding did it all with just 32 codepoints, 

6 physical points on the paper enable a character to be felt. 
I've never 'felt' a baudot character? is it possible?






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• References:
  • Re: MicroASCII proposal
    • From: jean-marie.gouarne@a...
  • Re: MicroASCII proposal
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@c...>