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<p>Yes, compactness is of great benefit in Morse Code. To such an
extent that I find myself thinking that "expressing any Unicode
character" and "Morse Code" are somewhat at odds with one
another.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_for_non-Latin_alphabets">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_for_non-Latin_alphabets</a>
speaks of non-Latin alphabets using their own encodings of many of
the same dot-dash sequences that ASCII uses for non-ASCII
characters. I guess in a way it's rather like the old ISO-8859
code pages: you use the same bit sequences but they mean different
things depending on what alphabet you're speaking. A big part of
Unicode's purpose was precisely to supplant ISO-8859 (right?) so
that each character could stand on its own and not have to have
code-page metadata attached to it.</p>
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<p>I can sort of see some logic to allowing the same for Morse Code,
but again, Morse Code needs its compactness and needs to be short
enough for humans to send and receive. The "code-page" approach
sounds eminently practical and usable for most purposes for Morse
Code. Still, what you're talking about is some kind of "unicode
escape sequence" that you can use for one-off insertions of a
character here and there (one hopes), and I can see some utility
to that. But who gets to decide how that's done? Unicode doesn't
control International Morse Code. Probably you need to take this
up with the International Telecommunication Union to make it
official, or else find a bunch of Morse Code enthusiasts who'll
use it unofficially until it becomes a de facto standard.</p>
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<p>Note that there are already Chinese and Japanese telegraph codes
(about which I know nothing, but Wikipedia does), so there are
already Morse Codes that have to represent largish character sets.<br>
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<p>~mark<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/7/23 17:51, Sławomir Osipiuk via
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