Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix dot netcom dot com> wrote: > First, reprinting Shakespeare's works using flags would make it > immediately and utterly illegible to most speakers of English. So they > would fail the test of being recognizably the same letter. > > Second, one place where the flags are still used today is sailboat > races. Replacing the flag by a placard showing the letter would also > not be acceptable in that context. > > So, seeing that Unicode nowadays has the support of SMS-specific > symbols as part of its scope, who would like to be able to communicate > with flags? > > Another alphabet, even that with 1:1 correspondence to Latin, but, > again, not recognizable as such are the "dancing men". They at least > can be demonstrated to have appeared in print.
Are substitution ciphers candidates for encoding? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
