On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:43:26PM +0100, Otto Stolz wrote: > >Radovan Garabik had written: > >Recently I got a crazy idea: why not include Morse code characters > >in unicode? (Yes, I know it is crazy, but when Braille is already > >included...) > > I wrote: > >I was under the impression that all three Morse code elements are already > >in Unicode: > > U+00B7 > > U+2013 > > U+0020 > > > U+2013 was a bad idea, as some (many, most?) fonts concatenate the > U+2013 glyphs into a horizontal line. So, I think, U+002d HYPHEN-MINUS > is the better alternative. > > Most Morse code instructions I've seen in the Internet, or on paper, > use U+002E FULL STOP for the Morse dot; but I think, we should rather > recommend U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT. >
However, by using the same arguments, we may come to the conclusion that there is no need to separately encode LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, since it can be (more or less acurately) expressed via the sequence "/-\". Or chinese characters are not decomposed into strokes (they certainly could be). (However, OTOH korean characters can be decomposed) Moreover, Morse characters are distinct logical entities, primary representation of them is audible, less visual (like primary representation of braille is tangible, less visual). -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
