Sampo Syreeni scripsit: > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: > > >As *characters*? Why? > > Naval signalling ones perhaps aren't.
I looked at the image (less than ideal) at http://www.fortknoxxjewelry.com/store/myname/images/1177_l.jpg and fed it through the Gimp to strip out color information (specifically, Image/Colors/Desaturate followed by Image/Colors/Threshold, taking the 127 default, which leaves stark black and white). The only remotely confusable letters are H and K, I think, though other people with better visual imagination may wish to check this conclusion. In any event, this is plainly a letter-by-letter cipher for the basic Latin alphabet (A-Z), and the fact that single letters or combinations may be used as codes for cross-linguistic concepts is of no more interest to a character encoding standard than that "ABALC" can mean "Abandon all claims" in any of various natural languages. -- John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
