Text 20159, 56 rader
Skriven 2011-06-27 00:18:47 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
  Kommentar till text 20153 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: character sets
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HEllo Michiel,

On Mon 2011-Jun-27 00:12, Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555) wrote to Richard
Webb:

 RW> OH yeah, both alt keys are the "shut up now" command.
 RW> wOndered about that one myself in fact, but alt was a
 RW> logical assumption, either hand can find it easily, etc.

MvdV> I f0u?d th!$ fu??Y ut!l!tY $0m? Y??AE$ AEg0. It !$ CAEll?d
MvdV> ?!C??.C0m... 

MvdV> Well, it will probably make your speech software go banananas...
MvdV> ;-) 

Yep, couldn't make head nor tails out of it <g>.

MvdV> Anywaym what about other Alt functions. Many programmes use tha
MvdV> Alt key and bluntly scrifying it for the "shut up" command seems
MvdV> problematic to me. 

THose it passes through, but can't pass through to number
pad, because it's totally preempted when in numbers mode
instead of cursor movement mode so that you have a look
around the screen without moving application cursor, etc.
That's where the real rub comes in with the alt and number
pad combinations.
AS long as it doesn't touch this message editor, such as a
file I autopost, if I need to use them I just use something
unique, and use a command line search replace utility that
will allow me to define what I want to replace with, so
that's our workaround there.

 RW> IT gets even more interesting with it, because any symbol in braille
 RW> has a total of six dots with which to make it, which means we've got a
 RW> few compound characters <g>.

MvdV> six dotts, so 2^6 = 64 combinations. Of which a good many will be
MvdV> unusable, so i can see the Braille character set is limited.

MvdV> Well, so is Morse code and we could deal with that too. The latest
MvdV> official addition to Morse code was the @ character: .--.-.

YEp, I"ve argued that we need to expand that character set
as well, remember I'm a radio traffic handler <g>.  YOu'd be surprised the
number of folks who are serious MORse users
who don't know about the @ symbol yet <g>.  sTill sending a
url or email address as part of a radiogram via MOrse can be interesting.  SUre
adds some bulk to messaes as these
unproduceable chars are spelled out <g>.


Regards,
           Richard
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