Re: On the possibility of encoding some localizable sentences in plane 7

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sat Apr 09 2011 - 10:47:22 CDT

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    Christopher Fynn wrote:

    > In Post Offices throughout India they had (and may still have) a list
    > of indexed sentences ranging from things like "Best Wishes for
    > Diwali" to "Father on his death bed, come immediately". These
    > messages could be sent by the telegraph operator in a few short morse
    > code characters simply indicating the sequence on the list and the
    > Indian language in which the message was to be delivered. The sender
    > was only charged for the few characters necessary to send the
    > sentence.

    As I wrote earlier, there are a great many things in life, including
    items of information, which can be indexed and encoded to great benefit.
    But unless these items can somehow be considered characters, I don't
    think the Unicode Standard is the place to index and encode them. 

    --
Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14
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