Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin posted:
Note that a more or less correct (content) display of the morse symbolsNormally Morse code appears in text through a cypher font containing complete sets of dots and dashes corresponding to particular letters and characters.
depends on the typeface used (presentation), and probably this should
not be so.
The same is usually true of barcodes, when not drawn directly by graphic routines. That is, one uses a font in which the sets of white and black bars of different thicknesses corresponding to any particular character is coded as that character.
I have never seen a barcode font or Morse font encoding individually the various widths of black and space that make up the respective codes.
I would suppose the coding in Unicode of Braille glyphs disassociated from their meaning came from particular requests to allow the association between character and braille pattern, which varies in different languages, to be done at a higher level if desired, distinct from Baille fonts which encode the characters according to their translation.
One might imagine a simlar desire from those using Morse code: coding of primitive Morse symbols (Morse space, Morse dot, and Morse dash) to be used for automatic general of Morse codes over a wire or by radio though a device that recognized those symbols, with the actual assignment of the patterns to letters done though a higher level table.
One might imagine similar assignments in Unicode for various widths of barcode lines and spaces.
But is there actually any demand for this, which would be indicated by any fonts of this kind that anyone has created.
Jim Allan
