Hi Mark, I am glad you found my comments helpful.
I agree with you that the appearance of the Model 100 glyphs for 90 and 91 indicate that the Unicode code points to which they correspond should have related symantec meanings. I believe Model 100 glyph looks unambiguously like the bell symbol. This suggests that 91 is the “RINGING BELL”. 90 ⍾ ⍾ BELL SYMBOL; 91 🕭 🕭 RINGING BELL I am glad you agree with me on the phone booth glyph being mapped to the “telephone location sign” code point. 81 ✆ ✆ \2706 Telephone location sign; For me, the semantic meaning of 82 is “telephone extension” (note the appearance of “x” after telephone), or basically the importance is on the phone number, rather than the phone device. If you agree this is a reasonable meaning, then you can see why I suggest 82 ℡ ℡ telephone sign For 0x83, I recommend 📱'MOBILE PHONE' (U+1F4F1), because this code point does not mean only cell phones, but includes satellite phones also. The font designer can be creative and choose to represent “mobile phone” with a glyph indicating a satellite phone, and this would be just as valid as one representing a cellular phone. Since Immarsat has been around since 1979, and the first widely-deployed North American cellular network was introduced in 1983 (after the Model 100), I think it makes sense that 0x83 is a generic “mobile phone.” From: Mark Wickens Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 3:30 a.m. Cc: Model 100 Discussion Subject: Re: [M100] Fwd: Re: Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PCfiletransfer... Managed to get the control characters to display (the Unicode control character glyphs start at 0x2400) On 15 November 2015 at 10:51, Mark Wickens <[email protected]> wrote: Many thanks for all the input. Ron: I've corrected the copy-paste error. Comet: I have incorporated many of your suggestions and I agree with your philosophy. The revised and permanent home for the table is now: http://wickensonline.co.uk/static/files/tandy/Unicode/TandyModelTCodetoUnicodeConversionTable.html I have embedded the GNU Unifont truetype font in the HTML file - this is a really nice for font this application as it is based on bitmap glyphs and has good coverage. I'm still learning how best to provide the appropriate fonts so that the table will render with as many possible glyphs on as many possible devices. The remaining question marks regarding suitable unicode glyphs for me are (Model T character positions quoted): 0x90 and 0x91 - these are currently mapped to the Bell and Peace symbol. I believe that characters 0x90 & 0x91 are meant to represent two positions of a Space Invader. I'd be happier if these mapped to something with the equivalent semantic meaning. 0x81 and 0x82 - to me these look like a payphone and an off-hook payphone. I think the current Unicode glyph assigned to 0x82 ✆ is a better fit for 0x81 and an 'off-hook' symbol should be assigned to 0x82, but I haven't found one of those. 0x83 - I understand the argument that this may be representing a 'wireless' phone connection - either satellite link or mobile phone. I'm on the fence with this one. Mobile phone might be a more useful glyph to use, but satellite dish is cooler :) Regards, Mark. On 15 November 2015 at 08:48, _ Comet <[email protected]> wrote: http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unicode_Mappings suggests alternate translations for some of the Unicode code points. (Chris Osburn) M100,81,U+26FD,FUEL PUMP ⛽ ☏ ☏ WHITE TELEPHONE M100,83,U+1F4E1,SATELLITE ANTENNA 📡 ☈ ☈ THUNDERSTORM M100,84,U+1F697,AUTOMOBILE 🚗 ♿ ♿ WHEELCHAIR SYMBOL M100,87,U+1F6BD,TOILET 🚽 ⚚ ⚚ STAFF OF HERMES M100,93,U+1F6B9,MENS SYMBOL 🚹 ☺ ☺ WHITE SMILING FACE M100,94,U+1F6C2,PASSPORT CONTROL 🛂 ☹ ☹ WHITE FROWING FACE I believe it is more important to match the semantic meaning, rather than the particular glyph appearance, as Unicode explicitly defines MEANINGS, and does leave it to font designers much freedom in designing the particular glyph appearances, so downloading the proper graphics should be secondary to assigning the proper meaningful Unicode point. : 81 looks like it's intended to indicate a phone booth, so ✆ telephone location sign -- dingbat 82 I would map to ℡telephone sign 83 It doesn't look like it means "Thunderstorm" to me, although I can kinda see a satellite antenna. I think the meaning is 📱'MOBILE PHONE' (U+1F4F1) 84 means formula one style racing car to me, so 🏎 U+1F3CE 87 looks like it means 🖀 'TELEPHONE ON TOP OF MODEM' (U+1F580). 93 and 94 are not looking like they mean any kind of white face at all; to me, they convey the following meanings: 93 is gender-neutral pedestrian 🚶 U+1F6B6 94 is gender-neutral dancer 💃 U+1F483 224 E0 does not duplicate "space" to me. Its presence by the graphic drawing characters means 'EM QUAD' (U+2001) space to me. 190 BE looks, even for the Model 100, like it means ¨ DIAERESIS -------- Comet
