Yes, it's true. Marco had sent me his UTF-Morse proposal just yesterday, along with a suggestion that I put together an implementation for April Fool's Day. And darned if I wasn't really going to do it. As a JOKE.
But Marco, you need to check your invented sequences again. The leading and trailing Morse code units for the (non-ASCII) multi-Morse characters conflict with some of the single-unit characters. For example, U+002D -....- looks like a leading unit, and U+0023 .-.-.. looks like a trailing unit. (It's only a JOKE, guys. Take a breath.) -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Carl W. Brown'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:22 am Subject: UTF-Morse (was RE: Morse coded Unicode(was: Morse code)) > Carl W. Brown wrote: > > I think that the bigger issue might be how do you extend Morse code to > > incorporate the Unicode character set. > > [...] > > Carl, this is unfair!! You spoiled my April 1st joke in mid November! > > Ciao. > Marco :-) > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > UTF-Morse - "Bringing Unicode in the telegraph age!" > > > 1. Unicode characters U+0020..U+007E are encoded according to the > following table: > > Code: UTF-Morse: Character name: > ------ ----------- -------------------------- > U+0020 / SPACE > U+0021 -----. EXCLAMATION MARK [1] > U+0022 .-..-. QUOTATION MARK > U+0023 .-.-.. NUMBER SIGN [1] > U+0024 ..-... DOLLAR SIGN [1] > U+0025 ..-..- PERCENT SIGN [1] > U+0026 ..-.-. AMPERSAND [1] > U+0027 .----. APOSTROPHE > U+0028 -.--.- LEFT PARENTHESIS > U+0029 -.---. RIGHT PARENTHESIS [1] > U+002A -.---- ASTERISK [1] > U+002B --.... PLUS SIGN [1] > U+002C --..-- COMMA > U+002D -....- HYPHEN-MINUS > U+002E .-.-.- FULL STOP > U+002F -..-. SOLIDUS [1] > U+0030 ----- DIGIT ZERO > U+0031 .---- DIGIT ONE > U+0032 ..--- DIGIT TWO > U+0033 ...-- DIGIT THREE > U+0034 ....- DIGIT FOUR > U+0035 ..... DIGIT FIVE > U+0036 -.... DIGIT SIX > U+0037 --... DIGIT SEVEN > U+0038 ---.. DIGIT EIGHT > U+0039 ----. DIGIT NINE > U+003A ---... COLON > U+003B ---..- SEMICOLON [1] > U+003C ---.-. LESS-THAN SIGN [1] > U+003D ----.. EQUALS SIGN [1] > U+003E ---.-- GREATER-THAN SIGN [1] > U+003F ..--.. QUESTION MARK > U+0040 -.-.-. COMMERCIAL AT [1] > U+0041 ..-- .- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A [2] > U+0042 ..-- -... LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B [2] > U+0043 ..-- -.-. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C [2] > U+0044 ..-- -.. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D [2] > U+0045 ..-- . LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E [2] > U+0046 ..-- ..-. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F [2] > U+0047 ..-- --. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G [2] > U+0048 ..-- .... LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H [2] > U+0049 ..-- .. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I [2] > U+004A ..-- .--- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J [2] > U+004B ..-- -.- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K [2] > U+004C ..-- .-.. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L [2] > U+004D ..-- -- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M [2] > U+004E ..-- -. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N [2] > U+004F ..-- --- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O [2] > U+0050 ..-- .--. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P [2] > U+0051 ..-- --.- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q [2] > U+0052 ..-- .-. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R [2] > U+0053 ..-- ... LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S [2] > U+0054 ..-- - LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T [2] > U+0055 ..-- ..- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U [2] > U+0056 ..-- ...- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V [2] > U+0057 ..-- .-- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W [2] > U+0058 ..-- -..- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X [2] > U+0059 ..-- -.-- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y [2] > U+005A ..-- --.. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z [2] > U+005B ..---. LEFT SQUARE BRACKET [1] > U+005C .-.... REVERSE SOLIDUS [1] > U+005D ..---- RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET [1] > U+005E .-...- CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT [1] > U+005F ------ LOW LINE [1] > U+0060 ...--- GRAVE ACCENT [1] > U+0061 .- LATIN SMALL LETTER A > U+0062 -... LATIN SMALL LETTER B > U+0063 -.-. LATIN SMALL LETTER C > U+0064 -.. LATIN SMALL LETTER D > U+0065 . LATIN SMALL LETTER E > U+0066 ..-. LATIN SMALL LETTER F > U+0067 --. LATIN SMALL LETTER G > U+0068 .... LATIN SMALL LETTER H > U+0069 .. LATIN SMALL LETTER I > U+006A .--- LATIN SMALL LETTER J > U+006B -.- LATIN SMALL LETTER K > U+006C .-.. LATIN SMALL LETTER L > U+006D -- LATIN SMALL LETTER M > U+006E -. LATIN SMALL LETTER N > U+006F --- LATIN SMALL LETTER O > U+0070 .--. LATIN SMALL LETTER P > U+0071 --.- LATIN SMALL LETTER Q > U+0072 .-. LATIN SMALL LETTER R > U+0073 ... LATIN SMALL LETTER S > U+0074 - LATIN SMALL LETTER T > U+0075 ..- LATIN SMALL LETTER U > U+0076 ...- LATIN SMALL LETTER V > U+0077 .-- LATIN SMALL LETTER W > U+0078 -..- LATIN SMALL LETTER X > U+0079 -.-- LATIN SMALL LETTER Y > U+007A --.. LATIN SMALL LETTER Z > U+007B --.-.. LEFT CURLY BRACKET [1] > U+007C --.--. VERTICAL LINE [1] > U+007D --.-.- RIGHT CURLY BRACKET [1] > U+007E --.--- TILDE [1] > > > 2. All other Unicode characters are encoded with one of seven > multi-Morse schemes: > > Code range: Scheme > ----------------- ------ > U+0000..U+0007 1 > U+0008..U+001F 2 > U+007F..U+01FF 3 > U+0200..U+0FFF 4 > U+1000..U+7FFF 5 > U+8000..U+3FFFF 6 > U+40000..U+10FFFF 7 > > Each scheme uses a Morse sequence of the form ".-.yyy", possibly > preceded by one or more Morse sequences in the form ".-.yyy": > > Scheme Bits (x: 0 or 1): UTF-Morse (y: "." if x is 0, "-" if x is 1): > ------ -------------------- > ------------------------------------------------ > 1 00000000000000000xxx .-.yyy > 2 00000000000000xxxxxx -..yyy .-.yyy > 3 00000000000xxxxxxxxx -..yyy -..yyy .-.yyy > 4 00000000xxxxxxxxxxxx -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy .-.yyy > 5 000000xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy .-.yyy > 6 000xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy .-.yyy > 7 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy -..yyy > .-.yyy > > > 3. Notes > > [1]: Some sequences are unique to UTF-Morse, and are unknown in > traditional Morse code. > > [2]: Capital letters use the same code as small letter, preceded by > sequence "..--" (which is unique to UTF-Morse). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > - >
