On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:49:32AM -0800, Andrew C. West wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:41:58 -0800 (PST), Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > Moreover, Morse characters are distinct logical entities, primary > > representation of them is audible > > Precisely. So for example ..- is pronounced "dot dot dash" (three distinct > logical entities) not "u". >
well, it depends... it is pronounced /u/ in Slovak, /ju:/ in English, /y/ in French Let's take a better example, "glyph"[1] whose audible representation could be transscribed as --.- It covers two distinct logical characters, one is latin "Q" and the other cyrillic "Ш" This is a direct analogy to visual glyphs, e.g. glyph that looks like a half-circle covers two distinct characters, namely U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C and U+0421 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES [1] I used the word glyph because I do not know how to call the acoustic equivalent of our visual glyph -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
