On 3/20/2020 4:47 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote:
On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Just for a laugh... one of the more esoteric codings I used in the quasi modern
error (besides EBCDIC) was the 5 bit Quotron stock ticker system in the mid
90s. It used different codes for requesting/receiving quotes because 2^5 is
only 32 possible characters. Alpha in/numeric out.
They created a *new* five bit, shifted code, rather than just using Baudot????
From a guessEncoding perspective, you just scan the bytes and if all
byte values are in the 0-31 range, you have a 5-bit code.
Then it get harder to determine whether it is Quotron or Baudot...
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