The Economist has recently been running large posters on the London Underground written entirely in Morse code.
I'm not sure what this says about their perceived target market. At 14:19 18/11/02 -0500, Jim Allan wrote: >Carl W. Brown posted: > >> I seem to remember that just recently Morse code was dropped and is no >> longer used officially. Braille is different. >> >> Unicode does support dead scripts for scholarly use. Do you think that >> there will be many scholarly texts that will be written in Morse code? > >Morse code is certainly being used less and is mostly phased out for >maritime use. See for example http://www.wjkane.com/picayune.htm and >http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/av/1999/08/msg00000.html. > >But it is not yet dead. See >http://www.inq7.net/reg/2002/aug/02/reg_10-1.htm. > >An ability to interpret Morse code at the rate of at least five words >per minute is still a requirement for a Ham radio license. > >A number of Morse Code fonts are available from links found at >http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/morse.html along with many more "normal" fonts. > >Of course the chracters in such Morse Code fonts are simple cyphers for >the Latin alphabet and there is no particular need for Unicode to code >the characters directly as a separate script. > > > >Jim Allan > > > >
