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jean-marie.gouarne@arsaperta.com 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, representing A-Z, NUL, SP, CR, LF, and two shifts, FIGS and LETS. After sending FIGS, the codepoints for letters represented 0-9 and -'$!&#'()"/:;?., until you sent LETS. -- As you read this, I don't want you to feel John Cowan sorry for me, because, I believe everyone cowan@ccil.org will die someday. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --From a Nigerian-type scam spam
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