Re: [xml-dev] MicroASCII proposal

From
Dave Pawson <>
To
John Cowan <>
Date
2011-01-14T08:04:15Z
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<20110114080415.0635b148@marge3>
Thread
Re: [xml-dev] MicroASCII proposal
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:14:07 -0500
John Cowan <> wrote:

>  scripsit:
> 
> 
> > As an example, we could remember the primary (pre-Unicode) Braille
> > system, that allows the representation of any plain text with 2^^6
> > characters only.
> 
> Bah!  Way excessive.  The ITA2 (sometimes called, unhistorically, the
> Baudot) encoding did it all with just 32 codepoints, 

6 physical points on the paper enable a character to be felt. 
I've never 'felt' a baudot character? is it possible?






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