Re: Weird charset, TWX

From: Randy Presuhn (rpresuhn@peer.com)
Date: Fri Sep 26 1997 - 14:39:43 EDT


Hi -

> Message-Id: <9709251745.AA06061@unicode.org>
> To: Multiple Recipients of <unicode@unicode.org>
> Reply-To: unicode@unicode.org
> From: texin@bedford.progress.com (Tex Texin)
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:44:01 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Weird charset, TWX
>
> This question came to me. The encoding is strange. I suspect that parity
> bits are confusing things and perhaps this is an encoding specific to
> Telex. Anyone have any ideas what this is?

Reverse the order of the bits and throw away the parity, and
it'll look like ASCII.

...
> cr B1h 177 | '2' 4Dh 77 | 'N' 72h 114
...
          10110001 01001101 01110010
          -> 0D -> 32 -> 4E

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