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Re: MicroASCII proposal

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:59:29 +0000

> 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.
>
I knew that 5-hole paper tape in my attic would come in handy some day.

Michael Kay

• References:
  • Re: MicroASCII proposal
    • From: jean-marie.gouarne@arsaperta.com
  • Re: MicroASCII proposal
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>