News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How ASCII lost and unicode won. Parent comment

Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by chiph on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:42AM (#6012334)
Baudot, baby!

Had the advantage that an open carrier (all zeros) mapped to NULL so you didn't waste paper (either tape or roll).

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by nknighthb on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:45AM (#6012349)
Had? Baudot is alive and well on the HF bands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTTY

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by chris_wot on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @09:58AM (#6012661)
Yeah, but does anyone still use the Gauss-Weber Telegraph Alphabet? [1]

1. http://www.randomtechnicalstuff.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/unic...

[ Parent | on HN ]